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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)

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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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Old Magic: Lives of the Desert Shamans belongs in social science and Native American collections alike, examining the lives of the desert shamans of the West and providing important keys to understanding their daily experiences, perspectives and rituals.

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.
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DDonovan | Jun 11, 2015 |
The ancient city of Ubar is clouded in myth. It controlled the frankincense trade for the Arabian Peninsula and became quite a wealthy oasis. Then, as told in the Koran, it was smote from the Earth for favoring wealth over worship. The city of Ubar was gone forever. Nicholas Clapp’s The Road to Ubar weaves together history, archaeology, technology, and even a little luck to rediscover the history of the Arabian Peninsula. With the help of an archaeologist, a geologist, and a real-life adventurer, he travels through the vast Arabian Desert to take back what the desert hid for so long.

Clapp’s methodology here is quite fun. Many historical figures had traveled through this area of the Arabian Peninsula searching for archaeological insight, and Clapp uses both their insights and new technology to pinpoint the location of a buried city in the sands at Shisr in Oman. Unfortunately, a sinkhole has swallowed a fair chunk of the ruins, but much of the wall remained intact and his team dutifully catalogs the whole experience. After its discovery, he places the city in as much historical and mythical context as he can provide. Clapp’s team’s journey is fairly interesting and also provides a good deal of history on the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula. A very fun read.
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NielsenGW | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Dec 1, 2014 |
Excellent resource book. Easy to read and understand.
 
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Childs-Pancorvo | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Apr 26, 2010 |
Generally contains three parts: 1) Myth 2) Expedition and 3) The Rise and Fall of Ubar. Being a plot-motivated reader, I enjoyed the expedition the best. Having done a little research myself, I can appreciate the desire to document it as Clapp has done in "Myth," however I found this tedious. Unlike some other books of this type, there is are excavations and findings associated with the expedition, which made it interesting. The text includes illustrations, maps, three appendices, notes, a bibliography, and index.… (més)
 
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bogreader | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Mar 16, 2009 |

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