About the imaginary area it was exciting to be somehow in my boyhood terrain and is deeply familiar to me in one thing or another the books are easy to write, i did feel for was enough in the last word and forth book is enough but then i had a half book ten years later. People would murmur robert rabbit when i go by, does not happen too often anymore, im not exactly like him, our books are short in rough background but he stayed and i left is one way to put it. Every ten years readers were treated to look back on the decade filled with historical features of the decade and understanding through his eyes, where you catch me up to date on your reel of america 2005. What did rabbit make of iraq and bush and all that, i really dont know, a lot of robert observation is about the small changes in ease very interested in women and how they dressed and theres been quite a few changes and carried among female dress, he was struck by the rollerskating in the online skating and women began to jog
And now im book tv we would like to highlight some Program Summer archives of focus on pandemics. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org using the Search Button at the top of the page. First, in 2000 on cspans book note Program Science journalist talks about the history of influenza, specifically the 1918 outbreak. Heres a portion of that interview. Hadley thought much about the fluid just seemed like something that came round every year people get sick and then they get better again. Ive never really been interested in it at all within a few years ago im a reporter for the new york times, wrote an article for the times about a really miraculous discovery. There is a guy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and he was writing and that technical journal called Science Magazine that he had managed to get some lung tissue from a soldier who died in 1918. And that lung tissue, there were still fragments of the virus that it ki
At one point, pigs were running loose through the villages, sometimes abandoned villages. Like a nightmare scenario but it really happened, like something out of early Cormac Mccarthy or the book of exodus, infectious pigs running wild to the countryside, coughing. One fellow called at the 1mile barking cough because you could hear the sick pigs coming in due new york pig farm would be next. Real story. Nissan encephalitis is this disease in humans. This is what the disease scientists do, they go out and try to solve the ecology and evolutionary biology of these new diseases. Where does the virus live, what is the reservoir host, how do humans come in contact with the virus, what are they doing . And ecological disruption that causes the spillover. It gets into sometimes and eating intermediate animal, pigs, in australia a virus falls out of back and get into horses. Pigs or horses are referred to as the amplifier host, the virus reproduces abundantly in them. They showed lots of virus
You can go around the back. I want to welcome David Quammen who has come this evening to talk about his new book spillover animal infections and the next human pandemic. Its the first time he has been to politics and prose. He has written many many books including the song of the dodo which won the donderos metal for history writing. David holds honorary degrees from Colorado College and Montana State university where he served as professor of western american studies. He has also won the National Magazine award three times for articles in a wide variety of magazines including a squire, the atlantic and rolling stone. The third of these awards was for a National Geographic story called what went wrong. National geographic now, he has the title contributing writer, that is with capital letters which requires him did you say three articles a year . Three articles a year for National Geographic, he describes this as field biology, evolutionary biology, theoretical ecology and conservation
Current nonfiction authors and books. The latest book reviews. And well talk about the current nonfree asian books featured on cspans book tv. And welcome to about books. In a few minutes, well talk about the late novelist Cormac Mccarthy and how his career was nurtured by the Publishing Industry and whether that could still be the case today. But first, heres some of the latest news from the publishing world. Well, part of a new arkansas law restricting what books are available to children has been blocked by a federal judge. The law would have made it a criminal offense to distribute or provide materials deemed, quote, harmful to minors. Libraries in arkansas and the state. Aclu had challenged the law on 14th amendment and First Amendment grounds. In his ruling, the Us District Court judge timothy brooks included a line from the novel fahrenheit 451, which of course depicts a dystopian future where oks are banned. Quote, there is more than one way to bura book. The judge wrote, and t