Wade Davis

Anthropologist and Author

Anthropologist Wade Davis is perhaps the most articulate and influential western advocate for the world's indigenous cultures. As a speaker, he parlays that sense of wonder into passionate concern over the rate at which cultures and languages are disappearing. Davis, a Harvard-educated ethnobotanist, believes humanity's greatest legacy is the "ethnosphere," the cultural counterpart to the biosphere. He is the author of over 15 books, including his most recent Into the Silence - an epic tome that took nearly 12 years to finish about British climbers’ epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s.