We continue with the Wayfinder ethnographic series by the noted National Geographic explorer and scientist, Wade Davis. Today, we turn the spotlight on the coca plant culture of the Andeans of South America and the remarkable seafaring Polynesians, who discovered virtually all the habitable islands in the tropical Pacific centuries before Captain James Cook demonstrated the use of the compass and other Western navigation tools.

Coca: The Divine Plant of the Incas

Great Maritime Journeys: the Polynesians