"In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna."
Alex Shoumatoff is an American journalist and author known for long-form reporting in major publications, including Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. He has written multiple books on environmental and social subjects. He was born on November 4, 1946.