Wade Davis has degrees in anthropology and biology as well as a Ph.D in ethnobotany from Harvard Univesity. He is currently explorer-in-residence at National Geographic. Davis is a popular and critically acclaimed writer whose first book, The Serpent and the Rainbow, has sold over 400,000 copies and is still in print. He lives with his wife and two children in Washington, D.C., and spends the summers in the Stikine wilderness of British Columbia.