BwanaPapyrus
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer, Ecologist |
| Location | McLean, Virginia |
| Introduction | A Fulbright Scholar to both India and Malaya, John Gaudet is a writer and practicing ecologist. His early research on aquatic ecosystems, funded in part by the National Geographic Society, took him to Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, and many other places in Africa. His work has been discussed in Nature, and by Peter Moore on the BBC show Science Now, and by Alan Cowell in the New York Times. He is a trained ecologist with a Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley and is the author of many scientific papers on ecology. His most recent non-fiction book Papyrus: The Plant That Changed The World published by Pegasus, NY (2014) will be followed shortly in Sept. 2018 by another Pegasus book, Pharaoh's Greatest Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization. His earlier novel The Iron Snake, historical fiction, a novel about a railroad in Africa that affected millions of people is available on Amazon. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Salon and Huffington Post |
| Interests | Classical Italian cooking, Victorian history, sail boats, history of the American Civil War, art deco/art nouveau. |
| Favorite movies | Jane Austen stories set to film (Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park). Recent nature documentaries (Winged Migration, March of the Penguins, The Lovebirds of Telegraph Hill) |
| Favorite music | Baroque classical; 50's-60's modern jazz; chant/new age/space (Vangelis – Chariots of Fire); zydeco, S.African/Shona/Zimbabwe especially Stella Chiweshe – Talking Mbira (Thanks to Anna) |
| Favorite books | Classics: Jane Austen, Dickens 30’s: comic novels of EF Benson (Mapp-Lucia series) 50’s-60’s: James Joyce (Ulysses, Dubliners, Portrait) Recent: Ian McEwan (Atonement) |