Suzanne Cook

Suzanne Cook is an adjunct professor of linguistics at the University of Victoria. She is a former project director and principal investigator of the Volkswagen Foundation–sponsored Lacandon Cultural Heritage Project and the author of The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide.

Her primary interest is in different and vanishing cultures and giving voice to their people. Her concern about the negative impact of western culture on traditional cultures is reflected in Xult’an, The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, and Solitary Journey, a multi international award-winning documentary on the effects of the first conquest of Mount Everest on the Sherpas through the eyes of the British leader of the expedition and his Sherpa guide.

In all her works, she introduces the reader and viewer to authentic people and places the world is aware of but barely knows.