The book opens with the young man, Francis Marion Tarwater, refusing to do the two things his grandfather had ordered him to do.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

It is the first book in a series that Mister Burroughs wrote about a man who travels to Mars during the last years of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

The Canadian-American writer John Geiger wrote about this in a recent book called The Third Man Factor. The book will soon be published in several languages, including Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Alexander chronicles those experiences in his book,"52 Loaves: One Man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning and a Perfect Crust."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16