Wood acts as patron and ambassador for a number of charities including the Tusk Trust, The Glacier Trust and the ABF The Soldiers' Charity. He is an elected Fellow of the Explorers Club in New York, an Honorary Fellow of CASS Business School and holds an honorary doctorate at Staffordshire University. He has extensive experience in travel and exploration in over 100 countries and in 2011 was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He left the army in April 2010, took up a career in writing and photography, and has become a bestselling author.

Wood was promoted to Captain on 13 October 2008. He was commissioned as an officer into the Parachute Regiment on 13 April 2006 where he spent four years, serving in Afghanistan in Helmand, Kandahar and Zabul. Levison was educated at Painsley Catholic College, before obtaining an honours degree in history at the University of Nottingham. The son of teachers Janice Wood (née Curzon) and Levison Wood Sr., Wood was born on at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary in Hartshill, Staffordshire, and grew up in nearby Forsbrook. He documents his journeys through books, documentaries and photography. He has also undertaken numerous other overland journeys, including a foot crossing of Madagascar and mountain climbing in Iraq. He is best known for his extended walking expeditions in Africa, Asia and Central America. Major Levison James Wood FRSA FRGS FRSGS VR (born ) is a British Army officer and explorer. Military officer, explorer, photographer and journalist

Walking the Americas by Levison Wood