The Baoulé are the largest ethnic group in Côte d’Ivoire, an Akan people of the centre of the country numbering some four million or more. Farmers of the forest and

The Basques speak Euskara, a language unrelated to any other on Earth. A grounded look at their ancient origins, seafaring past, and remarkable language revival.

In the cool highlands of North Sumatra, around the vast volcanic lake of Toba, live the Batak, a family of related peoples who long kept their independence in the mountainous

Across the vast deserts of Arabia and the Levant roam the Bedouin, the nomadic Arab herders whose way of life gave birth to the very ideals of Arab culture. For

The Bemba, or Babemba, are the largest ethnic group in Zambia, dominant in the north and, through migration, in the Copperbelt, and prominent throughout the country. Numbering some millions, they

Across the hills and forests of western and central India, in the Aravallis and the wild country where Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh meet, live the Bhils, one of the

Across the fertile plains of western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, watered by the sacred Ganges, live the Bhojpuri people, one of the largest ethnolinguistic communities of the Indian subcontinent.

In the eastern Himalaya, in the small state of Sikkim beneath the sacred snows of Kangchenjunga, live the Bhutia, a Buddhist people descended from Tibetan settlers who crossed the mountains

In the fertile plains along the Brahmaputra in Assam live the Bodo people, who call themselves Boro, counted among the earliest inhabitants of the great river valley of northeastern India.

On the dry steppes north of the Caspian lives the only Buddhist people of Europe. This is the story of the Kalmyks, a Mongol nation who rode across a continent to make their home in Russia.