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	Wade Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edmund Wade Davis (born December 14, 1953 in British Columbia, Canada) is a noted anthropologist and ethnobotanist whose work has usually focused on the observation and analysis of the customs, beliefs, and social relations of indigenous cultures in North and South America, particularly the traditional uses and beliefs associated with plants with psychoactive properties.
		Davis is a citizen of Canada, Ireland and the United States.
		A research associate of the Institute of Economic Botany of the New York Botanical Garden, Davis is also a board member of the David Suzuki Foundation, Ecotrust, Future Generations, and Cultural Survival—-all NGOs dedicated to conservation-based development and the protection of cultural and biological diversity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wade_Davis (471 words)

	Wade Davis Bill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 was a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland.
		Davis was a bitter enemy of Lincoln, because he was not harsh enough.
		He and Wade issued a manifesto "To the Supporters of the Government" on August 4, 1864, that accused Lincoln of using reconstruction to secure electors in the South who would “be at the dictation of his personal ambition,” condemned his efforts to usurp power from Congress, and implicitly recommended dumping him from the Republican ticket.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wade_Davis_Bill (787 words)

	Davis, Henry Winter - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Davis became the leader of the Unionist forces in Maryland in opposition to Governor Hicks, whose sympathies were Southern.
		Davis and Benjamin F. Wade substituted for Lincoln's measures a much more thorough and radical plan of their own and succeeded in forcing it through both House and Senate, only to see it killed by Lincoln's pocket veto (1864).
		Davis was a magnetic speaker, and at his death was, as a private citizen, virtually dictating the actions of the radical Republicans in Congress.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/DavisHW.asp (391 words)

	National Geographic: Explorers-in-Residence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wade Davis is an anthropologist, botanical explorer, and best-selling author who received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany from Harvard University.
		Born December 14, 1953, in British Columbia, Davis is a citizen of Canada, Ireland, and the United States.
		Davis has published scientific and popular articles on subjects ranging from Haitian voodoo and Amazonian myth and religion to the global biodiversity crisis, the traditional use of psychotropic drugs, and the ethnobotany of South American Indians.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /council/eir/bio_davis.html (325 words)

	Wade Davis -- Speakers-Network
		In this lecture, Davis shares that the lesson to be drawn from his travels is that cultural and biological diversity are far more than the foundation of stability, they are an article of faith, a fundamental truth that indicates the way things are supposed to be.
		Davis offers an eloquent and vivid account of Schultes' explorations, a celebration of the perseverance and wisdom of Indian peoples, and a lament for the terrible rate of destruction of landscape, culture and spirit that time has wrought throughout the Americas.
		Davis' work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing Passage of Darkness and The Serpent and the Rainbow, an international bestseller which appeared in 10 languages and was later released by Universal Studios as a motion picture.
	www.speakers-network.com /speakers/speaker.asp?id=295 (1043 words)

	Wade, Benjamin Franklin - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		WADE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN [Wade, Benjamin Franklin] 1800-1878, U.S. Senator from Ohio (1851-69), b.
		During the Civil War, Wade and his radical Republican colleagues set up the meddlesome committee on the conduct of the war, of which he was chairman.
		As president protempore of the Senate, Wade was next in line for the presidency, and he eagerly awaited Johnson's conviction on impeachment charges.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wade-ben.html (426 words)

	Wade Davis - Biographical Sketch
		Wade Davis holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany from Harvard University.
		Davis was the host and co-writer of Earthguide, a 13 part television series on the environment which aired on the Discovery Channel.
		Davis is married to Gail Percy, an anthropologist, and when not in the field they divide their time between Washington D.C., Vancouver and their fishing lodge at Wolf Creek in the Stikine Valley of northern British Columbia.
	www.rimba.com /oneriver/wadedavisbiosketch.html (567 words)

	IDEAS
		Wade Davis is Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., and an ethnobotanist, which means that he studies how indigenous people use plants, particularly sacred plants.
		For Wade Davis, certain plants are sacred to the people of the Amazon not only because they are a means of entering the spirit world but also because they link them in a profound way to the complex physical world in which they live.
		Wade Davis tells of the sloth who is home in his own body to burrowing beetles and who, as part of the delicate waltz of nature, defecates at the base of his tree in order to fertilize that tree and preserve his own habitat.
	webhome.idirect.com /~jsalvis/ReadingRoom/Ideas/IDEAS.htm (7514 words)

	mumblage \| the wade davis interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Davis, though, withstood academia’s blunt projectiles to continue his explorations of outré culture from the deepest Amazon to the highest Arctic to ever-mystical Tibet.
		The Mumblage spoke with Davis, an expansive and almost frighteningly intelligent conversationalist, over the phone from Washington, DC—his base camp when he’s not trekking through forgotten lands or kicking it with his wife and kids in obscure corners of his native Canada.
		Wade Davis: Well, Serpent is an interesting piece of work that became somewhat controversial, mostly because of the egregious movie that came out of it.
	www.mumblage.com /wadedavis.html (2468 words)

	Wade Davis Convocation
		Davis' photographs have been widely published and his research has been the subject of more than 600 media reports and interviews throughout the world.
		Davis is a fellow of the Linnean Society, Explorer's Club, Royal Geographic Society and serves as executive director of the Endangered People's Project.
		Davis was the host and co-writer of the Discovery Channel's "Earthguide," a 13-part television series on the environment.
	www.denison.edu /publicaffairs/pressreleases/wade_davis.html (418 words)

	Motivational Speaker: Wade Davis
		Wade Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society.
		Wade Davis has spoken to thousands of audiences around the world and will be the highlight of your next event.
		Wade's name came to my attention while I was planning the final dinner event of the year of centennial celebration of the Boone and Crockett Club to be held in the Hall of North American Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History.
	www.everestspeakersbureau.com /wadedavis.htm (2329 words)

	Explorer Wade Davis on Vanishing Cultures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wade Davis is an anthropologist and ethnobotanist who has traveled and lived among the people of traditional cultures in many countries.
		His study of native plants and diverse human cultures has taken Davis to the Canadian Arctic, the deserts of North Africa, the rain forests of Borneo and the Amazon, the swamps of Venezuela's Orinoco delta, the wilds of British Columbia, the hidden world of Haiti, and the mountains of Tibet.
		Davis said he learned the basic skills in a university course, but believes his photographic work has been enhanced by his professional training and observation.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/06/0627_020628_wadedavis.html (1125 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Serpent and the Rainbow: Books: Wade Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wade argues these community establishments are not truly "secret societies," but instead reflect the needs of people for whom bombastic pronouncements have no place in their daily existence.
		Davis leaves this question open, but if we engage in the type of investigation he relates, there might be other examples in other societies from which we can learn.
		Davis finds that his western view of the zombi recipe is barely complete without taking into account the Hatian's religion, government, history, and culture.
	www.amazon.ca /Serpent-Rainbow-Wade-Davis/dp/0684839296 (2251 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire: Books: Wade Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Davis sometimes seems a little too eager to tell about how the local herbal concoctions are made and their psychic affects.
		Davis is the ultimate story-teller, though his tone is that of science as opposed to the average traveler tales.
		Davis, who in his youth spent several years working as a logging engineer in the Northwestern American logging business, tells the story with facts and figures about what is being done to our irreplacable forests.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Shadows-Sun-Travels-Landscapes-Desire/dp/1559633549 (1098 words)

	CBC: Life And Times
		Wade Davis is driven by that same zeal to explore but not for gold and not to chart an unknown coastline.
		Wade Davis: The Explorer follows Davis from a river trip with his family on the Stikine in Alaska and Northern B.C. to the Incan ruins of the high Peruvian Andes.
		Davis brings those experiences to us through his writings, lectures and photographs - teaching us that there are other ways of seeing and experiencing the world.
	www.cbc.ca /lifeandtimes/davis.html (334 words)

	NBA.com: Wade, Davis Named NBA Players of the Week
		Wade averaged 28.0 points, 4.5 rebounds and 6.0 assists while shooting 46.8 percent.
		Davis led the Warriors to a 3-0 record by averaging 21.0 points and 13.0 assists per game.
		Davis pledged to donate $500 towards Hurricane Katrina relief effort for every point he scored vs. his former team (Hornets) totaling $8,500 after his 17-point performance against the Hornets.
	www.nba.com /news/pow_051205.html?rss=true (443 words)

	Henry W. Davis
		Davis worked as a lawyer in Baltimore, where he became an active member of the Whig Party.
		On the outbreak of the Civil War Davis joined the Republican Party and in 1863 was re-elected to the House of Representatives.
		Davis also opposed Andrew Johnson and his Reconstruction Plan before losing his seat in the House of Representatives in 1865.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASdavis.htm (394 words)

	New Orleans Hornets, Baron Davis, Dwyane Wade, Darrell Armstrong, National Basketball Association, Miami Heat - CBS ...
		Wade put the Heat ahead to stay by hitting the shot, a 3-pointer with 54 seconds left, and Miami beat the New Orleans Hornets 87-83 Friday night for a 3-2 lead in the first-round playoff series.
		Wade made his second clutch last-minute basket of the series, but give the boisterous, fl-clad crowd of 20,147 an assist.
		Wade and Eddie Jones sparked the comeback by the Heat.
	cbs.sportsline.com /nba/gamecenter/recap/NBA_20040430_NO@MIA (1104 words)

	lunch with Wade Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wade Davis is the author of One River, Nomads of the Dawn, Shadows in the Sun, and The Serpent and the Rainbow.
		Although Davis admits that he finds writing to be less of a conscious process than the end result of "being open to experience," he says it is his passion to record and share the diversity of life that drives his work.
		Davis may throw himself into the river’s inevitable flow, but he refuses to accept merely one definition of the direction it will take.
	www.journalism.ubc.ca /wade.html (483 words)

	Shambhala Sun - The White Darkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		-Wade Davis on the rites of rural Haiti
		Haiti is saturated with cliche-the poverty, the tortured landscape, the spate of abominable political leaders, consistent it seems only in their personal greed and disregard for their people.
		Wade Davis, an anthropologist and ethnobotanist, is author of The Serpent and the Rainbow and One River.
	www.shambhalasun.com /Archives/Features/1999/Mar99/wadedavis.htm (3970 words)

	Intriguing and Thorough \| The SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW \| Wade Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wade is after the Zombi medicine, he is shown how to make it, he returns with a sample and it is verified.
		Wade Davis takes the readers on a journey through the deep secret society of the Voudon culture, which unfortunately has been ravaged by Hollywood's typical clichý voodoo movies.
		Davis paints a moving and interesting portrait of the history of Haiti, as well as the history of the Voudon culture, which accounts for much of the country even though the national religion is Roman Catholic.
	www.very-clever.com /information/dqoeokzhzq (1836 words)

	Wade Davis: Scientist, Explorer and Writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wade Davis was born in British Columbia, in northwest Canada.
		In his books and in public speeches, Wade Davis mourns the way ancient peoples throughout the world are being torn from their past and pushed into the future.
		Wade Davis says that every culture that disappears reduces human knowledge about the natural world, ways to react to common problems, and even the meaning of existence.
	www.voanews.com /specialenglish/2005-05-03-voa2.cfm (1535 words)

	Amazon.com: One River: Books: Wade Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wade Davis relates the stories of two Richards, Schultes and Spruce, plus his own in their respective excursions in the upper Amazon.
		Davis is able to use his close relationship with Schultes to provide an engrossing and detailed account of Schultes' career in the bush.
		Speaking of Wade Davis, there was a rumor some years ago that he was living amongst the Rastafarians in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica and planned to write a book about it.
	www.amazon.com /One-River-Wade-Davis/dp/0684834960 (2417 words)

	Mr. Lincoln's White House: Benjamin F. Wade (1800-1878) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wade served as chairman of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War and the Senate Committee on Territories.
		Lincoln and Senator Wade: "On March 6, 1863, several weeks after replacing Burnside with Hooker, Lincoln met with his new commander of the Army of the Potomac and with influential Republican Senator Benjamin Wade, chairman of the powerful Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.
		Wade's abrasive personality and position on issues such as inflation may have caused some senators to doubt the wisdom of impeachment.
	www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org /inside.asp?ID=164&subjectID=2 (624 words)

	National Geographic Speakers Bureau: Wade Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Davis spent three years in the Amazon and Andes searching for new medicinal drugs, before heading to Haiti to investigate folk poisons used to create zombies.
		Davis explores this ancient culture and interprets its sacred homeland Machu Picchu.
		He touches a harmonious chord in all of us-whether it is love of nature, desire to explore the world, understanding the need for preservation of indigenous people and their culture, or the call to push ourselves to make a difference in our communities.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /speakers/profile_davis.html (416 words)

	Lycaeum \| Books \| One River, Wade Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1974-75, Wade Davis and Tim Plowman traveled the length of South America, living among a dozen Indian tribes, collecting medicinal plants and searching for the origins of coca, the sacred leaf of the Andes and the notorious source of cocaine.
		Davis graphically describes the brutal clash of cultures from Columbian times to the present, often so devastating for indigenous peoples, that has defined this region.
		Although Davis might have been better advised to scale down, this is an exceptional tale of 20th-century scientific exploration and a rousing travelogue to places both real and illusory.
	www.lycaeum.org /books/tradition/riverdavis.html (1760 words)

	Wade Davis: Anthropologist & Explorer
		Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he received his PhD in ethnobotany from Harvard University and his work as an anthropologist and botanical explorer has taken him from the forests of the Amazon to the mountains of Tibet, from the high Arctic to the deserts of Africa.
		For three years Wade Davis traveled in the Andes and Northwest Amazon, living among a dozen or more tribes as he searched for new sources of medicine for the modern world.
		In this lecture Davis both reviews the results of his expeditions and outlines the hopes and expectations of the ongoing program of ethnobotanical exploration that today seeks from the forests new treatments for cancer, A.I.D.S. and a host of afflictions that affect the well being of all human societies.
	www.speakers.ca /davis_wade.aspx (1197 words)

	SI.com - NBA - Davis, Wade named Players of the Week - Monday December 5, 2005 6:44PM
		Davis received the honor Monday after averaging 21 points and 13 assists, leading the Warriors to three wins.
		Davis has been the recipient of the honor three of the last eight times it has been awarded.
		Wade matched his season high with 33 points in a 107-94 victory over the New York Knicks on Monday.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2005/basketball/nba/12/05/bc.bkp.lgns.nbaplayersoftheweek.r/index.html (278 words)

	Lycaeum \| Books \| The Serpent and the Rainbow, Wade Davis
		During the course of several field trips, Davis discovered the neuropharmacological properties of plant and animal substances that explain how zombies are made.
		Davis also became enmeshed in the social web of Haitian society and depicts the historical forces that led to the intertwined relationships between cults and secret societies on the one hand, and the government on the other.
		He forms the initial hypothesis that the zombi powder consists of datura (a psychoactive plant which is strongly hallucinogenic in small quantities and poisonous in large quantities) and that the antidote consists of Calabar bean.
	www.lycaeum.org /books/tradition/serpentdavis.html (824 words)

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