Wade Davis is a writer and photographer whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 2000 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Davis spent more than three years in the Amazon jungle and the Andes as a plant explorer. He later moved to Haiti to study the popular ceremonies involved in the creation of zombies and it was here where he wrote two of his best-known novels: The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985) and Passageof Darkness (1988). Davis has published articles in publications such as Outside,National Geographic, Fortune and Condé Nast Traveler. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, was released in 2011.In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia. His latest book is Magdalena: River of Dreams of which President Juan Manuel Santos, a Nobel Prize winner, tweeted a beautiful endorsement and Héctor Abad has called it a love letter to a nation.