John Gaudet

A Fulbright Scholar to both India and Malaya, Dr John Gaudet is a writer and practicing ecologist. His early research on papyrus, funded in part by the National Geographic Society, took him to Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, and Ethiopia. A trained ecologist with a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, his writing has appeared in Science, Nature, Ecology, the Washington Post, and the Huffington Post. He is the author of The Pharaoh's Treasure, The Origins of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization