Mostrando resultados por autor "Richard Druitt" en Todas las categorías

Poems and songs celebrating the author's more than a quarter of a century living in Puerto Rico. 177 works covering people and places on the island with a large cast of fauna and flora.

This is the true story of drinking ayahuasca, the Vine of the Dead, in Peru. In 1981 an Englishman and an Australian arrived in Iquitos, Peru, connected with Terence and Dennis McKenna as well as the writer Nicole Maxwell, and embarked on a seven months adventure drinking the powerful hallucinogen with various ayahuasqueros, including Don Melo and Don Solon. Later the scene shifts to Lamas. This book meticulously records their experiences, both good and bad, and the text is illustrated throughout with their vision paintings. The book is a testimony to some of the pitfalls as well as the ...

Finally revised & in one volume, this is a novel that blends fantasy and biography, the historical & mystical, with a liberal dose of psychotropic. Written in two time lines, it's a fictionalized account of explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett's attempt to find a Lost City in the Amazon and a quest to find him some 50 years later. It forms the 3rd and final part of the author's Ayahuasca Trilogy, although it stands alone as a work of fiction.

Set on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England, these poems celebrate a place and lives once lived. Located at what was the authors family home for a quarter of a century, the poems are an intimate portrait of a special place, and the last years of his parents.

Professor Ableweather, an eccentric inventor, lives and works in an English Cotswold village. He has an assignment to create a Simultaneous Translation Machine that will revolutionize communication across cultures. He accidentally discovers it can also help connect with his dog and cat, who happily sing him their songs. With the assistance of Sam and Sarah, children at the village school, he discovers all sorts of other animals have their songs to share. This attracts the attention and concern of Mr. McChip, a local farmer and owner of a fast-food restaurant, and his friend Phil the Butcher...

Unsettled is a volume of short stories that are all unsettling. 'Mother Superior' is really a ghost story and was born of actual ghost tours that take place in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. 'Fantastic World' delves into the alternative landscape of cyberspace. The often thin line that separates us from our somewhat psychopathic shadow side is explored in many of the stories, such as 'A Killer of a Book', 'Assignment 19', 'Walking To School' and 'The Wilderness Man'. 'Winjimorra Hill' contains some of the mystery of the Australian Outback.

On Yaje Nights is a tribute to yaje, ayahuasca, the Vine of The Dead. Using poems, songs and visions, the author reveals his experiences with the sacred remedy whilst working with Peruvian and Colombian healers.