About the Book: Custodians of Wonder : Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and
the Last People Keeping Them Alive
Named one of the best travel books of the year by National Geographic,
Smithsonian, and Afar
"Eliot Steins quietly powerful new book celebrates the kind of singular,
site-specific expertise thats endangered by globalization and
technology...smart, genial and occasionally astonishing...its a country mile
from the news cycle, a winning collection of thoroughly un-current events."-SF
Chronicle
A vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the worlds
oldest and rarest cultural traditions.
Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are
preserving