“This pioneering book reveals the history of the amazing and profoundly ethical civilization of the Amazonian indigenous people. For thousands of years the indigenous people of the Amazon rain forest built a civilization of harmonious coexistence between humans, plants, animals, physical entities and the intangible spiritual beings that populate the quantum world. And they did it creating and recreating their own healthy environment. This jewel of a book is a breath of utopian fresh air”.
Stefano Varese, Ph.D., professor emeritus, University of de California, Davis

“During the last decades botanists and ecologysts working at the Amazon forests have discovered big isolated extensions of terra preta (a black soil of human origin), which prove that the indigenous communities did not only practice slash and burn agriculture, but that they also stayed in those areas and improved the agricultural quality of the soil by using carbon for nutrient retention and organic waste as compost. A book like this one, which celebrates and examines these revelations and the potential of the indigenous people’s technologies, was due long ago”.
Wade Davis, professor of anthropology, University of British Columbia

“Magic flows in Yana Allpa, a book whose realism calls our attention through the mythic-poetic, historical and anthropologic perspectives of the epochs, characters and fecundities of life. In this magnificent report about how pieces of pottery, burials and life-death processes become biocarbon soil, the authors combine creative writing, distinct research and interdisciplinary commitment with the need to protect the environment”.
John A. Grim, Ph.D., Religion and Ecology Forum of Yale University

“Tindall, Apffel-Marglin and Shearer took an apparently arcane subject and turned it into an irresistible and entertaining book about ecology, indigenous wisdom, sustainable development and our relationship with nature. Highly recommended!”.
Mark Plotkin, Ph.D., Amazon Conservation Team


Additional information:
Author: David Shearer, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Robert Tindall
Year of publication: 2019
Language: Spanish
Pages: 412
Size: 14 × 21 cm
Legal deposit: 2019-04676
ISBN: 978-612-47093-7-1
Copyright: Apus Graph Ediciones