Who is Glenn Wood? Enquiring minds want to know.Wood is his name and also his passion. Promoting the allure of wood and its preservation is his mission.He spent a childhood in a Victorian urban sanctuary fashioned in Lancashire, England, away from the Satanic mills of Manchester and commercial energy of Liverpool.He received spiritual awakening and guidance in the ancient universities of St Andrews in Scotland and Oxford in England. Philosophy and Chemistry make great bedfellows.He has ears that were regaled by stories of love and life from his Scottish grandma and to the sounds of Aymara panpipes, charangos and guitarras in Bolivia where he played classical violin in that country’s National Symphony Orchestra based in the rarified air of the high Andes.He spent a career’s lifetime studying how light interacts with matter to produce Autumn’s golden colors and the ghostly specters we call holograms, ethereal, visible but untouchable like the ghosts that populate this book. Those ghosts travel briefly through time telling their stories through tangible relics of their past, historical artifacts and collectible antiques.His feet carried him along the Great Wall of China in the north to the terracotta warriors of Xi’an in the south. From the giant redwoods of California to the wood carvers of India and far beyond.Glenn has devoured travel with the voracious appetite of a bear slurping honey.He is at home in Asia, Europe, North Africa and the Americas. Antarctica not so much. He speaks English and Spanish fluently, less well Italian, French, Portuguese. He has tried to learn German, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese and Russian and now with the wonderful aid of Google translator he can navigate all languages. Read more about this authorRead less about this author