Jeff Greenwald is a best-selling travel and science writer with five books and hundreds of magazine, radio, and Internet features to his credit. His writing career began in 1979, when he reported on his experiences as a water engineer in the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the Thai/Cambodian border. Since that time he has traveled throughout the world, writing about female circumcision in Africa, prison labor in China, human rights in Tibet, Nepal's environmental progress, dogsled racing in Alaska, and coral reef health in Asia and the Pacific.

His books include the best-selling Shopping for Buddhas, The Size of the World, and Scratching the Surface: Impressions of Planet Earth from Hollywood to Shiraz.

All photos © 2003 Jeff Greenwald, unless indicated otherwise.