David Suzuki: The Autobiography is the 2006 autobiography of Canadian science writer and broadcaster David Suzuki (pictured). The book focuses mostly on his life since the 1987 publication of his first autobiography, Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life. It begins with a chronological account of his childhood, academic years, and broadcasting career. In later chapters, Suzuki adopts a memoir style, writing about themes such as his relationship with Australia, his experiences in Brazil and Papua New Guinea, the founding of the David Suzuki Foundation, and his thoughts on climate change, celebrity status, technology, and death. Throughout, Suzuki highlights the continuing impact of events from his childhood. Critics have called the book candid, sincere, and charming, with insightful commentary if occasionally flat stories. Suzuki's scientific background is reflected in the writing's rational and analytic style. Suzuki's autobiography spent four weeks atop the Maclean's list of non-fiction best-sellers and six weeks at number 6 on the Globe and Mail's list. The book won two awards in 2007: the Canadian Booksellers' Association's Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year and the British Columbia Booksellers' Choice Award.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1688:
Prince William of Orange landed at Brixham in Devon, on his way to depose his father-in-law King James II, the last Catholic monarch of England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution
1864:
American Civil War: Union Army General William T. Sherman began his "March to the Sea", inflicting significant damage to property and infrastructure on his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman
1968:
Vietnam War: American forces launched Operation Commando Hunt, a large-scale bombing campaign to prevent the People's Army of (North) Vietnam from transporting personnel and supplies along the Ho Chi Minh trail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Commando_Hunt
1988:
The Soviet Buran spacecraft, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, unmanned, on her first and only space flight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
1988:
PLO leader Yasser Arafat proclaimed the creation of the State of Palestine as "the state of Palestinians wherever they may be". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Declaration_of_Independence
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
batman: (military) A servant or valet to an army officer. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/batman
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. --Felix Frankfurter https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Felix_Frankfurter