About the Author

Denis Cosgrove is professor in the department of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author or editor of many books, including Mappings, Imagining Eden: Connecting Landscapes, and High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains and Ice. William L. Fox is a writer, independent scholar, and poet. He is also the author of Approaching Nowhere, Observing in an Occupied Wilderness and Oblivion.