Author(s): Davi Kopenawa; Bruce Albert; Nicholas Elliott (Translator); Alison Dundy (Translator); Bill McKibben (Foreword by)

Self Help

A now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of on indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon rainforest and its devastating encounter with the global mining industry, in richly evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation as a shaman and first experience of outsiders: missionaries, cattle ranchers, government officials, and gold prospectors. A coming-of-age story entwined with a rare first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy, this impassioned plea to respect the rights and traditions of indigenous peoples is a powerful rebuke to the accelerating depredation of the Amazon and so many other natural treasures threatened by climate change and development.