Shamans Through Time is a five-hundred-year survey of writings on the healers, sorcerers, conjurers and tricksters who have fascinated us for centuries, tracing Western civilization`s attempts to understand the ancient knowledge of shamans round the world, from Asia and Australia to Africa and the Americas.

Jeremy Narby and Francis Huxley have collected observations about and interviews with shamans from more than sixty missionaries, botanists, anthropologists, ethnographers and psychologists from 1535 to 2000, who convey everything from fear, suspicion, fascination and adulation.
With essays by such acclaimed thinkers as Claude Lévi-Straus, Black Elk, Franz Boas and Carlos Castaneda, it provides and extraordinary glimpse into the shamanic practices of cultures around the world.