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The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell
“I just took all my favorite books ... Lawrence Durrell in The Alexandria Quartet”
“Lawrence Durrell in The Alexandria Quartet. How do you evoke the exoticism of a place as surreal as Haiti?”— Wade Davis
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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Wade Davis
“It was actually being gifted The Wayfinders by a friend of mine.”— Tim Ferriss
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The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Wade Davis
“And I really enjoyed that book. I encourage everybody to pick it up.”— Tim Ferriss
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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
Wade Davis
“It was not One River, although I'm familiar with that as well.”— Tim Ferriss
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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
Wade Davis
“So I pulled out a book of mine, One River, which happened to have a photograph in the frontispiece of one of the chapters.”— Wade Davis
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Magdalena: River of Dreams
Wade Davis
“But I'll tell you in my book, Magdalena, about the Great River of Colombia, there's a story of my good friend William Vargas.”— Wade Davis
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Magdalena: River of Dreams
Wade Davis
“I mean, it's nice that you can plug the Magdalena book at the introduction, but other than that, that's fine.”— Wade Davis
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
Wade Davis
“it was when I wrote The Serpent and the Rainbow that things clicked. I said, "Oh, that's what I am. I can write."”— Wade Davis
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Wade Davis
“The book we haven't really talked about, Into the Silence, which actually won the prize for the top book in the English language.”— Wade Davis
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The Yagé Letters
William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg
“the popularization of ayahuasca began with The Yagé Letters between William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.”— Wade Davis
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The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia
Stephen Hugh-Jones
“While Stephen was looking at the Yurupary cult in ayahuasca, and his book was published as The Palm and the Pleiades.”— Wade Davis
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From the Milk River: Spatial and Temporal Processes in Northwest Amazonia
Christine Hugh-Jones
“And her book, From the Milk River, shows that the preparation of bitter manioc is wrapped in as much cosmology.”— Wade Davis
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From Russia with Love
Ian Fleming
“it turns out to be written by Ian Fleming. And it was either From Russia with Love or from Dr. No.”— Wade Davis
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Dr. No
Ian Fleming
“it turns out to be written by Ian Fleming. And it was either From Russia with Love or from Dr. No.”— Wade Davis
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Coca-Cola
The Coca-Cola Company (inferred)
“that to this day, Coca-Cola imports each year by the ton allowing their beverage to really be the real thing.”— Wade Davis
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Tomorrow Never Knows
The Beatles
“because of psychedelics, The Beatles went from "She Loves You" to "Tomorrow Never Knows" in two years.”— Wade Davis
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She Loves You
The Beatles
“because of psychedelics, The Beatles went from "She Loves You" to "Tomorrow Never Knows" in two years.”— Wade Davis
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