Nicholas Clapp
Autor/a de The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands
Sobre l'autor
Nicholas Clapp is both an award-winning filmmaker & a noted lecturer on archeology. His first book, "The Road to Ubar", was a New York Public Library "Book to Remember" for 1999. (Bowker Author Biography)
Obres de Nicholas Clapp
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- Nom normalitzat
- Clapp, Nicholas
- Data de naixement
- 1936
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Borrego Springs, California, USA
- Educació
- Brown University
University of Southern California - Professions
- filmmaker
amateur archaeologist
lecturer
writer
film director - Biografia breu
- Nicholas Clapp is a Borrego Springs, California based writer, film-maker, and amateur archaeologist. He has often been called the "real Indiana Jones" and he has received 70 film awards (including Emmys) and several Academy Award nominations. He has two daughters, Jennifer and Cristina. He is a graduate of both Brown University and the University of Southern California, and he has worked for Disney, National Geographic, Columbia Pictures, PBS and the White House.
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- Obres
- 9
- Membres
- 392
- Popularitat
- #61,822
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 6
- ISBN
- 24
- Llengües
- 4
Old Magic is no singular production: it uses the folklore of a dozen tribes as it builds a diverse picture of the shaman's world, from dreamscape and tribal interactions to desert and mountain landscapes and their influence upon the overall approach of desert shaman ceremonies.
Color photos of these landscapes, along with photos of relics and early recorded shaman imagery, pair with discussions that blend history and folklore with an analysis of the spiritual belief systems of the shaman.
It would have been all too easy to tailor Old Magic to reach new age audiences alone, but Clapp's focus on documenting the desert shaman's unique approach to nature and human concerns, and the role his environment played in his perspectives, makes for a lively history that will also reach general-interest readers with an interest in Native American culture.… (més)