Wade Davis is a scientist, anthropologist, and writer who received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany from Harvard University and has spent twenty-five years studying the plants, psychotropic drugs, and ceremonial rituals of indigenous cultures around the world. His books include The Serpent and the Rainbow, which was later released as a feature motion picture, and One River.His latest book is Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest.
One of Davis's six favorite books about World War I, as told to The Week magazine:
Three Day Road by Joseph BoydenRead about another book on the list.
Boyden's novel follows two Cree men recruited as snipers by the Canadian army. Spare in style, it reads as one long, haunted hallucination — the Western Front as seen through the eyes of the shaman.
--Marshal Zeringue
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