Wade Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society.
Named as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.” He spent over three years in the Amazon and Andes as a plant explorer, living among fifteen indigenous groups in eight Latin American nations while making some 6000 botanical collections.
Davis’ work later took him to Haiti to investigate folk preparations implicated in the creation of zombies, an assignment that led to his writing Passage of Darkness (1988) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986). He is the host and co-writer of Light at the Edge of the World, an ethnographic documentary series that was shot around the world. He is also host, co-writer and co-producer of Peyote to LSD, which discusses the social history of the psychedelic movement.
