"Light at the Edge of the World:  A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures"

Renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, Wade Davis has traveled the world studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the diversity of human culture.  These passionate quests have taken him to the very center of indigenous life in places as remote and varied as the Canadian Artic and the deserts of North Africa, the rain forests of Borneo and the Amazon, the southern Andes and the mountains of Tibet, the swamps of the Orinoco, the wilds of northern British Columbia, and the surreal cultural landscape of Haiti,

In "Light at the Edge of the World", Davis presents 80 vibrant images from the many thousands of photographs he has taken over the course of 25 years of exploration.  Beautiful and haunting in their intimacy, these photographs reveal the wonders of the "ethnosphere" - the wealth of human diversity and the limitless potential of the human imagination.

Wade Davis's eloquent and captivating text describes what traditional peoples have to teach us about different ways of living and thinking - and points out how the dangers facing the ethnosphere could diminish us all.  Together, his words and photos take us into the heart of cultures to reveal that there are other options, other means of interpreting existence, other ways of being.