Friday, April 28, 2006

Hart House, Great Hall (7 Hart House Circle), 7:30pm

This eagerly awaited second instalment of David Suzuki’s autobiography, David Suzuki: The Autobiography, picks up where that book left off and traces the racism that Suzuki experienced in an internment camp in Canada during World War II, through his teenage years in southern Ontario, his college and postgraduate experiences in the U.S., and his career as a geneticist and as the host of The Nature of Things.

With characteristic candor and passion, he describes his metamorphosis into a leading environmentalist, writer, and thinker; the establishment of the David Suzuki Foundation; his many travels throughout the world and his meetings with international leaders, from Kaiapo chief Paiakan to Nelson Mandela to the Dalai Lama; and the abiding role of nature and family in his life.