David Rains Wallace
David Rains Wallace has published eighteen books, including two more about Central America, The Quetzal and the Macaw: The Story of Costa Rica’s National Parks and Adventuring in Central America: A Sierra Club Travel Guide. The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution received the 1984 John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing and Chuckwalla Land: The Riddle of California’s Desert received a 2012 Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Literature. Other titles include The Turquoise Dragon: An Eco-thriller, and Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution. Wallace lives in Berkeley, California.