here are some of david quammen's responses. favorite books, william faulkner, absalom, absalom, charles darwi on the origin of spies, tolstoy, anna karenina, jensen, creation, and congo: the epic history of a people. what is the horse book about? guest: the 8th day of creation, published in 1979 it is the first comprehensive history of the rise of molecular bioly. it is about watson, francois jacob and other brilliant scientists. it takes place in the late 40's into the 1960's. essentially developing this whole field of molecular biology, of which one part was watson encrypt solving -- watson and crip solving the dna molecules and rosalyn franklin's work and another fellow during research that helped people understand what the genetic molecule is, how it is structured, and how it works. fascinating book. host: along with his favorite books, he sent us this note -- another i want to mention, which i started reading before the national book award and hope to get back to you soon, robert samuel's his name was george floyd. he goes

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you give a warm, savannah welcome, to david quammen. >> thank, you, nancy thank you all. nancy does not like snakes. but that is okay. we talked about that, we talked through the, up next, spiders, everybody has their boundaries. thank you so much, bob and, diane thank you nancy, thank you savannah book first. thank you parishioners of trinity methodist church, it's great to be here, i'm honored and delighted to be here. it has been 35 years since i have been in savannah. and when i was last, here i was heading into the o'keefe gnocchi swap with john crawford, john crawfish crawford, one of your cherished local teachers, naturalists and he is here this. afternoon, which delights me, john. and we were headed into the o'keefe and o'keefe for five days of canoeing around, and slipping on the platforms, it was a magazine assignment for me. i had a magazine writing career giving me a license to go to while places and see wild things, and right about them. i'm going to talk about this book, breathless, the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus. and what is in it. i also want

host: [laughter] author, journalist david quammen has been our guest for the past two hours. guest: and now i am delighted to introduce tonight speakers philip is the white burkett miller, professor of history at university of virginia, where he has also served dean of the graduate school and director of the miller center. his scholarly work has on critical episodes in american and world history. he has been a member of the defense policy board for defense ashton carter and a member of the board of the bill and melinda gates foundation and 2020 he was elected a member of the american academy of diplomacy joining him on our digital stage this evening. our coauthors kendall hoyt and dr. richard j. hatcher. kendall hoyt, an assistant professor at gisela school of medicine at. and a senior lecturer at the third school of engineering at dartmouth college, where she teaches courses on biosecurity health systems and technical technological innovation. she serves on the us covid commission planning group. has served as a consultant for the coalition for epidemic preparedness innovati