An explorer seeking to document the world’s most remote and isolated cultures finds himself entering a mysterious land of voodoo magic and animism in the ancient African kingdoms of Benin.
James Dorsey
James Dorsey
James Michael Dorsey is an explorer, award-winning author, and lecturer who has spent three decades visiting remote tribal cultures In 60 countries. With fewer than 7,000 active languages on earth today, these oral societies are in danger of being lost forever. Dorsey’s written narratives are an attempt to give these vanishing people a small public voice to tell the world that they exist. His three books are a chronological narrative of these societies ending with a definitive study of gray whales, the natural history, and the indigenous peoples of the gray whale sanctuary of San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja, where he was a resident naturalist for 22 seasons. Dorsey is a former contributing editor at Transitions Abroad and has written for Traveler’s Tales, United Airlines, The Christian Science Monitor, Lonely Planet, Perceptive Travel, California Literary Review, Colliers, Los Angeles Times, Nowhere Magazine, BBC Wildlife, BBC Travel, Geo Ex, Wanderlust, Panorama Journal, and Natural History, plus several African magazines. His work has appeared in two volumes of “Best Travel Writing,” from TravelersTales, and appears in 25 anthologies. Dorsey is a retired fellow of the Explorers Club and a member emeritus of the Adventurers Club. View more of his work: www.jamesdorsey.com