235 reviews for:

Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive

Eliot Stein

4.27 AVERAGE

amieco's review against another edition

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Love the concept but don't have the energy for it right now

cmmainero's review

4.0

hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

roxymaybe's review

4.0

informative medium-paced

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A little exoticizing at times, but not distractingly so. A nice read.

hey_jeska's review

5.0

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

read_ofthe_stein's review against another edition

4.5

informative reflective relaxing medium-paced

earlgreyjedi's review against another edition

4.5

hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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Honestly, this book was fantastic and was like discovering treasure that you never knew existed. The -0.5 is actually personal preference because, while the narrator did a wonderful job, I feel like this is the kind of book I need to be able to annotate and look at the references section in the back. Hearing the names of different books mentioned sent me scrambling to write them down and then I would miss the next part and have to rewind 😅 but that’s more of a skill issue than anything lol. My favorite part was the bees! If I ever actualize my dream of beekeeping, you bet I’ll be telling my bees everything!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Terminal illness, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

A note on warnings:

so there are a lot of warnings and that’s because this book covers A LOT of history, which, unfortunately, involves a lot of bad events. Additional warnings would be discussions of fascism, life under a fascist regime, mentions of starving/food insecurity

cardiac_cat's review against another edition

4.75

hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

simong_ph's review

5.0

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

tigerpebble's review

2.25

slow-paced

broschro's review against another edition

4.5

hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced