Author: Francis Gerard
Born: 1945
Bio: >Francis Gerard is a documentary filmmaker who started out in Africa and has travelled the world ever since. He's especially interested in evolving cultures, and their anthropological bases. He spent the first ten years of this century developing and designing a museum in South Africa dedicated to the San bushmen and their art. It’s called the Origins Centre and it’s in Johannesburg.

>Francis wants readers to feel the extraordinary energy that the continent of Africa brings to those who know it.

>*Arrival of the Drakons* is his first novel.