Wade Davis is a truly exceptional Canadian, a cross between Timothy Leary and Indiana Jones. His academic work has made him the world’s foremost expert on plants and the way people use them. He is a best-selling author, an adventurer, and a consultant to a host of organizations – from the United Nations to the pharmaceutical industry. Davis is also an editor with the National Geographic Society, which has bestowed on him one of its rarest and most prestigious titles, “Explorer in Residence” – an honour he shares with only five others.