"A wonderful book" – Wade Davis

Wade Davis, legendary anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer, is perhaps the most articulate and influential western advocate for the world's indigenous cultures. Through stunning photographs and evocative stories, he parlays a sense of wonder into passionate concern over the rate at which cultures and languages are disappearing – 50 percent of the world's 6,000 languages, he says, are no longer taught to children.Several chapters in The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds chronicles...