The Eagle's Quest: A Physicist's Search for Truth in the Heart of the Shamanic World

Fred Alan Wolf. Touchstone Books, $21.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-671-79291-6

Personal odysseys through shamanic rites lead Wolf to posit links between the Shaman's experience and the ``new physics.'' A captivating, lucid quest for awareness. (Nov.)

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