Meeting the Medicine Men: An Englishman's Travels Among the Navajo

Author: Charles Langley
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Category: Indigenous Peoples, Guidebooks, Travel Writing
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback

In this fascinating real-life adventure, a chance meeting with a young Navajo Indian propels an English traveler out of his middle-class London life and into the world of North American Indian Medicine Men. Here, people firmly believe that witchcraft can bring ruin, even death, and only Medicine Men have the knowledge to do battle with evil, lift curses and restore the sick to health. Blue Horse is one of a dwindling band of Medicine Men traveling the vast Navajo nation of New Mexico and Arizona. Charles Langley, a former London newspaper executive, becomes his bag carrier and chauffeur and eventually his trainee. He sees the Medicine Man perform feats: foretelling the future, uncovering the hidden past and communicating with spirits. Vowing not to leave his brains at the teepee door, Langley studies the accumulating evidence that Medicine Men really can cure the sick, change events of long ago and influence the future. Across the breathtaking Southwest landscape and along the fabled Route 66, he meets startling characters and gains rare access into ancient healing traditions.

About Charles Langley
Charles Langley has spent a large part of the last three years living among the Navajo Indians on their reservation in New Mexico and Arizona, studying traditional healing ceremonies and rituals. Now a student of anthropology at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Langley is a former night news editor of the Evening Standard newspaper in London.

(BK-9781857885071)

SKU BK-9781857885071
Barcode # 9781857885071
Brand Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Artist / Author Charles Langley
Shipping Weight 0.3400kg
Shipping Width 0.150m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.220m
Assembled Length 14.500m
Assembled Height 21.800m
Assembled Width 2.000m
Type Paperback

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