{"product_id":"9781476702650","title":"Travels In A Stone Canoe : The Return of the Wisdomkeepers","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eTravels In A Stone Canoe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Harvey Arden, Steve Wall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this luminous story, two journalists from \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e on assignment in Indian Country cross an invisible boundary between two worlds, two different visions of reality—and find their lives transformed. In a stunning and probing narrative, the authors of \u003ci\u003eWisdomkeepers\u003c\/i\u003e embark on a dramatic \"spirit journey\" into the living wisdom of Native American spiritual elders.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen, nearly twenty years ago, a darkly enigmatic Cherokee herbalist approached journalists Harvey Arden and Steve Wall with the proposition that they join him in a study of the lives, wisdom, and spiritual practices of Native America's fast-disappearing \"Old Ones,\" the veteran writer and photographer found themselves thrust, despite their own hard-nosed skepticism, onto a mystic \"path of the Wisdomkeepers.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAfter receiving \"signs\" foretold by the Cherokee, they set off on a journey of spiritual discovery through another world, called Great Turtle Island, where the Old Ones—the Wisdomkeepers of aboriginal culture in North America—bestowed upon them piece by surprising piece a set of \"rules for being human\" called \"Original Instructions.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eArden and Wall eventually left their \u003ci\u003eNational\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeographic\u003c\/i\u003e careers and journalism altogether, and in 1990 produced an interim report on their spirit journey, their now-classic international bestseller \u003ci\u003eWisdomkeepers: Meeting with Native American Spiritual Elders.\u003c\/i\u003e In that book they recalled, \"We went out two journalists after a good story. We came back two 'runners' from another world, carrying an urgent message from the Wisdomkeepers. This book is that message.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNow, in \u003ci\u003eTravels in a Stone Canoe,\u003c\/i\u003e that message is further deepened and elaborated as the authors reveal the intensely personal story behind—and \u003ci\u003ebeyond—\u003c\/i\u003etheir journey to the Wisdomkeepers. A final, incandescent chapter, \"Original Instructions,\" sums up the transforming and highly practical wisdom they found. \"Wisdom,\" they learned, \"is not something you believe. It's something you \u003ci\u003edo.\u003c\/i\u003e\" This is a story that will inform, enlighten, and move every reader who accompanies the authors in their \u003ci\u003eTravels in a Stone Canoe.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781476702650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40989396828366,"sku":"9781476702650","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_6497377c-011b-4653-a127-cf01b864d417.jpg?v=1646862752","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781476702650","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}