Wood, Denis

DENIS WOOD, an independent writer and geographer based in Raleigh, North Carolina, was a distinguished professor of design at North Carolina State University from 1974 to 1998. His many acclaimed and influential books include "The Power of Maps", which was a History Book Club and a Quality Paperback Book Club selection, "Rethinking the Power of Maps" with John Fels and John Krygier, "Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas, Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land", and the classic, "Home Rules", with Robert Beck.