Tv television for serious readers. Good evening everyone and welcome to politics and prose im Bradley Graham the coowner of the store. We are delighted to have joshua hamare humor with us. He was here for his last book about four years ago and that one of course was very popular and it told a riveting story of how an archivist in timbuktu in northern mali managed with some very brave helpers to smuggle more than three and 50,000 historical manuscripts out from under militant jihadists. Someone with an eye for some really truly great stories. And hes done it again with his new book the falcon thief the falcon thief another true and gripping tale this one about wildlife smuggling. Generalist working for newsweek over nearly two decades. They joined them in the 1980s. Within a few years he was off to cover the rest of the world. With things that were in nairobi. On back here in the u. S. For the past decade cade and a half hes continued to report and traveled widely four years ago he won
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