ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Barbara Brodman recently retired as Professor Emeritus from a South Florida university, where she taught courses in history, economic development, global issues, and literature. She holds graduate degrees in Hispanic languages and literature, Latin American Studies, and International Business; she has been awarded an honorary doctoral degree, Fulbright awards in Brazil and Indonesia, and she has published a variety of scholarly works that deal with Latin American and international cultures and affairs.

She is founder and President of Global Awareness Institute (GAI), an environmental non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and protecting highly threatened areas of the Peruvian Amazon, and for many years she sat on the board of the Inter-American Center for Human Rights and served a variety of humanitarian organizations as a trained international election observer and human rights observer.

Her journey through South America, retracing Che Guevara’s 1952 motorcycle journey, was widely covered by the media, while thousands followed her adventures online or read her book about the adventure. More recently, she has co-edited a series of books on the vampire and other legends of the supernatural and a collection of essays on images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in literature and visual arts. A book recounting her exciting 2014 journey around the world in seventy days precedes this, her first novel.

Scholar, humanitarian, and adventurer, Dr. Brodman’s knowledge of global and Latin American affairs, and her hands-on approach to acquiring it, continue to enthrall and inspire the many students and non-students to whom she lectures still, both at home and abroad