Carlton Ward Jr. is an environmental photojournalist from Clearwater, Florida, with graduate training in ecology and anthropology. Through his photographs, he aims to promote conservation of natural environments and cultural legacies. He spent seven months in the field to make the photos in "The Edge of Africa. Michelle Lee is an ecologist and field program manager for the Smithsonian in Gabon. Native to southern Ohio, she has lived in Gamba since 2001, running research expeditions and gathering the knowledge needed to compose the text for this book. Francisco Dallmeier, Ph.D., has dir...