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> Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it > mean to be human and alive? Anthropologist and National Geographic > Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to > celebrate the wisdom of the world’s indigenous cultures. > In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the > Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In the Amazon we meet the descendants > of a true Lost Civilization, the people of the Anaconda. In the Andes we > discover that the Earth really is alive, while in the far reaches of > Australia we experience Dreamtime, the all-embracing philosophy of the first > humans to walk out of Africa. We then travel to Nepal, where we encounter a > wisdom hero, a Bodhisattva, who emerges from forty-five years of Buddhist > retreat and solitude. And finally we settle in Borneo, where the last > rainforest nomads struggle to survive. > > Understanding the lessons of this journey will be our mission for the next > century. For at risk is the human legacy — a vast archive of knowledge and > expertise, a catalogue of the imagination. Rediscovering a new appreciation > for the diversity of the human spirit, as expressed by culture, is among the > central challenges of our time. > -- Sandwichman
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