Custodians of Wonder
Stein, Eliot A vivid look at the ten key people who are maintaining some of the world's oldest and rarest cultural traditions.>Climbing through Peru's southern highlands, he encounters the last Inca bridge master who rebuilds a grass-woven bridge from the fabled Inca Road System. He befriends a British beekeeper who maintains a touching custom of "telling the bees" important news of the day and crunches through a German forest to find the official mailman ...