Welcome to book people. We love being able to put on author events like this wind chill do over 300 a year and its because you keep coming back and support your local independent book stores so do that as much as you can. Tonight we have cameras. This is going to be filmed by cspan so that is exciting. Because of that, when we take question and answers, after she speaks, if you will please raise your hand with a question and wait until one of us comes around with the microphone. Everybody has exciting questions but give us a second and well get to you so we can hear you and not have to repea e pete questions. Repeat questions. Feel free to take pictures but dont have any flash on. We love to see your pictures. We have all the social media, we love to see your perspective. If you would right now please silence your cell phone so we dont have any interruptions. A lot of people have already bought bought the book. We have sold out but getting more in. If you purchase the book before you b
Much as you can. You might notice that with lots of cameras down. That is exciting. Because of that, when we take questions and answers, if you will please raise your hand at the question and wait until one of us comes around with a microphone. I know everybody but questions, but give it a second. We will hear you and not have to repeat questions. Please feel free to take pictures and please dont have any flash on. Thats distracting. Would love to see your pictures as well where we have social media. If you want to attack us on if a program, facebook, twitter, we would love your perspective. If you would also please answer his cell phone so that we dont have any distractions or interruptions. A lot of people have bought the book. We are getting more and. They are available after she speaks. If you purchase the book before you get assigned, we would love you to do that. Afterwards, if you let us get her settled over here at the table and the lineup and go around the stairs over to my ri
Forestry official would not have cleared us for entry. We are registered and must promise we wont take any sapphires with us. We have Camping Equipment and enough food and water for three days. A dozen young men will be our porters. Itll be tough going all the way to the mines. And some of the porters say itll take six hours to get there. Weve already been warned that this will be anything but a normal hike. Over the village of and save a base seems like The Last Outpost of civilization our group attracts lots of attention white people are a rare sight here. Why i. Want. To. Tell you a Blue Sapphires were found last year in the Nature Reserve of
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Hunting in madagascar our. A perilous and highly strenuous job. But everyone here has high hopes that theyll find a fortune. But. Maybe today will be their lucky day and theyll find some gems in the sand. Being an image thats really a stock far and ill be worried about my safety if i sell it for a good price the crooks will be off to me very fast id have sleepless nights id get out of here early in the morning and go home to my village of course people would be watching me there to get a bit of a woman in but getting the money out of here quickly would be the safest option and when they would its found out and so for now if and i saw doesnt tell anyone about his discovery. Thank you were on our way to illegal sapphire mines outside the village of and save a bay in eastern madagascar. From here on the only way is on foot its somehow absurd it took us weeks to get permits to legally visit illegal mines. Then mining and environment ministries had to give their approval as well as an Inter