About

TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns, bringing together authors and industry experts to examine the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. In this talk, Wade Davis expands on his unique cultural perspective shared in his essays from Beneath the Surface of Things, with topics ranging from the demonization of coca, the sacred plant of the Inca; the Great War and the birth of modernity; the British conquest of Everest; the endless conflict in the Middle East; reaching beyond climate fear and trepidation; on the meaning of the sacred. His essay, “The Unraveling of America,” first published in Rolling Stone, attracted five million readers and garnered significant media interest over many weeks.

Moderator: Arshy Mann

Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays

Read more about Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays

Buy from

Buy from

Wade Davis

Wade Davis is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and was Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013. His 23 books, published in 22 languages, include One River, The Wayfinders and Into the Silence, winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top nonfiction prize in the English language.

Read more about Wade Davis

Photo credit: Adam Dillon.