Eliot Stein

2 weeks ago | postguam.com | Eliot Stein

During our honeymoon, my wife strapped herself to a steel cable, kissed me goodbye and threw herself off the side of a mountain. I watched as she disappeared into the jungle mist, leaving only her scream. Then it was my turn. I clipped my roller to the zip-line, took a running start and flew high above the canopy as the forest plummeted below. It felt like horizontal BASE jumping.

Feb 15, 2025 | brooklyndigest.org | Eliot Stein |Jason Schott

Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them AliveBy Eliot SteinSt. Martin's Press; hardcover, 336 pages; $29.00Eliot Stein is a journalist and editor at BBC Travel who currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and young son. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Wired, The Guardian, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and The Independent.

Dec 10, 2024 | lithub.com | Eliot Stein

San Francesco may be linked with a bandit, but he’s venerated by an island, and almost every Sardinian you talk to today has a story of how this saint and his sacred host have somehow touched their lives. Article continues after advertisementLadu, the shoeless pilgrim I followed from Nuoro to the sanctuary, made a promise to San Francesco when his mother was on her deathbed forty-seven years ago. “She had already received her last rites.

Dec 9, 2024 | rollingstone.com | Eliot Stein

December 9, 2024 El Hadji Sékou Kouyaté, Balla's father, playing the Sossa-Bala in 2017 Ursula Branscheid / CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69778989) Early on in his new book, “Custodians of Wonder,” BBC Travel writer Eliot Stein tallies some recent effects of globalization, a process that seems to only speed up. Nine languages, he notes, are lost annually; half of the world’s current languages could go extinct within the next 100 years. Nearly 3,000 villages in...

Dec 2, 2024 | fact-magazine.com | Julie Smith |Eliot Stein

SELF-HELPOpen When…By Dr Julie SmithThis is the book for life’s twists and turns, when being human starts to get complicated. A must-have companion to Dr Julie’s international bestseller Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?, which taught us the skills to strengthen our future mental health, Open When… is the book to turn to when you find yourself in the eye of the storm.