Wade Davis, described by ABC's 20/20 as "a real life Indiana Jones", was named by the National Geographic as one of the "explorers for the Millennium" and is a National Geographic Explorer in Residence. Wade Davis, anthropologist and botanical explorer, has a Ph.D. in ethnobotany from Harvard. He spent over 3 years in the Amazon and Andes searching for new medicinal drugs, before heading to Haiti to investigate folk poisons used to create zombies. He chronicled this investigation in his book, The Serpent and the Rainbow. An international best seller that appeared in 12 languages, Universal Studios later made the book into a feature film. From Haiti Davis moved to Borneo where he lived among the Penan, the last Nomads of Southeast Asia. His recent travels have taken him to East Africa, The High Arctic, Tibet and the Orinoco of Venezuela. A frequent contributor to National Geographic, Outside, Men's Journal, Conde Nast Traveler, Premiere, and other International publications, Davis is the author of eight books including Shadows in the Sun (1998), Rainforest (1998), The Clouded Leopard (1998), and One River (1998). The later was nominated for the 1997 Governor General's Award, Canada's most prestigious literary prize. A collection of his photographs, The Light at the Edge of the World, will appear in 2000. Davis' television credits include Earthguide, an 18 part series that aired on the Discovery Channel. His research expeditions have been the subject of some 500 print, radio, and television interviews and reports in Europe, North and South America and the Far East, and have inspired numerous documentary films, as well as three episodes of the X-Files. Wade Davis is a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all life's diversity. With a dazzling slide show, Wade Davis will take you on a visual journey that you will never forget. Photograph by Tyler Mallory
Honorarium Range: $5,000 to $10,000
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