Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question What does it mean to be human and alive Anthropologist and National Geographic ExplorerinResidence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the worlds indigenous culturesIn 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 allembracing 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 fortyfive years of Buddhist retreat and solitude And finally we settle in Borneo where the last rainforest nomads struggle to surviveUnderstanding the lessons of this journey will be our mission for the next century For at risk is the human legacy a vast archive of