CESAR A. BECERRA is a historian, writer, and adventurer whose projects and expeditions have been covered in major newspapers around the United States. He’s the author of The Kaimiloa Project (Free Range Publishing) and five previous books. An author of several articles focusing on the Everglades, the Miami Herald called him “an Everglades Evangelist,” while The New Times named him “Miami’s most Peripatetic Historian.” Born in Miami to Cuban parents, he honored his heritage by publishing an award-winning full-color weekly journal entitled Cuban Dreams, focusing on the Centennial of the Spanish-American War that impacted Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean. Becerra leads monthly boat tours in Miami and has paddled more than 400 miles in a kayak around the southern half of Florida. He teaches part-time at the Osher Institute of the University of Miami, Florida International University, and was a visiting lecturer at Miami Dade College.