Amanda Lewis is an award-winning book editor and a perfectly adequate big-tree tracker. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she now divides her time between the internet and a small island in British Columbia, Canada. Tracking Giants is her first book. Visit her at amandalewis.org.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a botanist and medical biochemist whose work uniquely combines western scientific thinking and the traditional concepts of the ancient world. Her most recent book is To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey From Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest.