Robert McCracken Peck

Historian, naturalist, writer and world traveler, Robert McCracken Peck holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a master of arts degree from the Winterthur Program in American Cultural History, University of Delaware. Widely published, Mr. Peck is the author of Land of the Eagle: A Natural History of North America, the companion volume to the eight‑part BBC/PBS television series of the same title. It was named one of the most notable natural history/science books of the year by The New York Times Book Review. As Senior Fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, he served as chronicler, historian and photographer of many scientific research expeditions around the world. In 1988 a new species of South American frog, one of three he discovered in the upper Amazon basin in Ecuador, was named in his honor.