Alain Gheerbrant Books
Alain Gheerbrant was a French writer and explorer whose work frequently delves into the realms of discovery and symbolism. His expeditions into the Amazon and Orinoco river basins allowed him to establish peaceful contact with indigenous peoples and traverse uncharted territories. Through his writings and films, he explored the myths, folklore, and symbolic meanings found across diverse cultures. His seminal dictionary of symbols became a vital resource for understanding universal human archetypes.
The Amazon past, present and future
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
A story covering the exploitation of the Amazon basin, from the 19th century rubber barons to today.
This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds-including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the phenomenal range of possible interpretations they offer. This book draws together folklore, literary and artistic sources, and focuses on the symbolic dimension of every colour, number, sound, gesture, expression or character trait that has benefited from symbolic interpretation. The conscious and unconscious minds are explored, desire and dreams are treated alongside the known and the chronicled. Extraordinary in its range and eclecticism, this dictionary was originally published in French as the Dictionnaire des Symboles, and it is regarded as the standard work on the subject
Dictionnaire des symboles
Mythes, rêves, coutumes, gestes, formes, figures, couleurs, nombres
AMAZONE (FLEUVE), FLEUVE, AMAZONIE, INDIEN, peuple, Amérique du Sud
Purdey Gun & Rifle Makers. La véritable histoire
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
