In the dense equatorial rainforest of the northwestern Congo basin, in the country that spreads across Gabon, southern Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea, lives a people whose carved wooden figures, serene

On a cluster of steep green islands far out in the North Atlantic, between Scotland, Iceland, and Norway, live the Faroese, one of the smallest of Europe’s distinct nations. A

A series exploring ten of the world’s most fascinating and overlooked peoples, from the Arctic Sami to the Mari keepers of the sacred groves.

The Rajasthani people of northwest India, the Rajput warrior clans, the Marwari merchants, the Thar desert, the great hill forts, folk culture, and the legacy of the Land of Kings.

With no common language, faith, or founding people, the Swiss built one of the world’s most stable and prosperous nations on a shared idea of self-government and neutrality.

Atop three mesas in the Arizona high desert, the Hopi have farmed corn without irrigation for over a thousand years, following an emergence story that treats this world as the

Heirs to a nomadic civilisation thousands of years old, the Kazakhs of the Central Asian steppe built a culture on the horse, the yurt, the dombra, and the freedom of the open grassland.

Along the low, wind-swept coast of the North Sea, in a land of meadows, water, and wide skies, live the Frisians, one of the oldest peoples of the region and

Heirs to the birthplace of Islam and to the world’s greatest oil reserves, the Saudis turned a poor desert society into a modern power in one generation.

On India’s misty eastern frontier live the Naga, dozens of warrior tribes who travelled in a century from headhunting to hymns, forging one proud identity through faith, festival, and struggle.