David Suzuki: The Autobiography
David Suzuki: The Autobiography is the 2006 autobiography of Canadian science writer and broadcaster David Suzuki. The book focuses mostly on his life since the 1987 publication of his first autobiography, Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life. Critics have called the book candid, sincere, and charming, with insightful commentary if occasionally flat stories.
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David Suzuki: The Autobiography is the 2006 autobiography of Canadian science writer and broadcaster David Suzuki. The book focuses mostly on his life since the 1987 publication of his first autobiography, Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life. It begins with a chronological account of his childhood, academic years, and broadcasting career. In later chapters, Suzuki adopts a memoir style, writing about themes such as his relationship with Australia, his experiences in Brazil and Papua New Guinea, and his thoughts on climate change, celebrity status, technology, and death. This is Suzuki’s forty-third book and, he says, his last. Critics have called the book candid, sincere, and charming, with insightful commentary if occasionally flat stories. Suzuki’s objective in writing the book was to document his experiences of personal rewards gained from the environmental movement and to illustrate, specifically for young people, opportunities in environmentalism. Suzuki believes that he has been unfairly labelled as ‘the master of doom and gloom’ by conservative media outlets. He intends this autobiography to be his final book.
Following its publication he planned to reduce his work week from seven to four days to spend more time with family and personal pursuits. Suzuki identifies a turning point of his life as winning his high school’s student presidential election. He initially refused to run believing he was not popular enough. His father encouraged him, saying: \”There’s no disgrace in losing … The important thing is trying. On The Nature of Things, Suzuki recalls his early interviews that allowed him to travel the world and demonstrate an affinity for public speaking and the jobs that he did. He was imprisoned there for being Japanese but shunned by other Japanese for being a third generation Canadian, speaking only English. His feeling of isolation continued during his early school years when the only other student of Japanese heritage was his twin sister. In an interview, Suzuki said, ‘my drive to do well has been motivated by the desire to demonstrate to my fellow Canadians that my family and I had not deserved to be treated as we were’
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