Award-winning journalist Jay Cowan has written about people, the environment and outdoor travel for thirty years for magazines around the world. His other books are The Best of the Alps from Blue Train Ink in 1999; Hunter S. Thompson from The Lyons Press in 2009; In the Land of Living Dangerously from Monsoon Press in 2012; and the novel The Time of the Heathen Rage from Blue Train Ink in 2013.