About the Author

C. C. Lockwood -- wildlife photographer, naturalist, and lecturer -- has published many books of photographs, including Around the Bend: A Mississippi River Adventure; Beneath the Rim: A Photographic Journey Through the Grand Canyon; and The Yucatán Peninsula. His work has appeared in over one hundred books and magazines, including National Geographic, and in 1978 he received the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography. He lives in Baton Rouge.