mokhtar alkanshali, dave eggersh new book is "the monk of mokha." thank you both very much for being here. >>fonk tvir s s.ngha u >> woodruff: and we'll be back but first, take a moment to hear >> woodruff: now to our newshour shares. when two black bears were badly burned recently in a california wildfire, veterinary teams camer to tescue with a treatment never tried before on animals: fish skins. the newshour's julia griffin explains. >> reporter: december's thomas fire was the largest on record in california, scorching more anan 280,000 acres and destroying more th,000 homes. but while human residents could escape the inferno, two black bears rescued by the california department of fish and wildlife weren't so lucky. trapped by the flames, they had suffered severe, second- and third-degree burns to their paws. >> this is all that is left of her normal pad. >> reporter: for u.c. davis r'terinarian jamie peyton, addressing the beainjuries would require outside-the-boxin thng. namely, treating the burns with tilapia skins. i >> the beaill tell you,

for mokhtar alkanshali it marked the beginning of quite a journey. from wayward san francisco youth, to his family homeland of yemen caught up in a civil war, to successful coffee importer and businessman with many stops along the way.y his st told in the new book "the monk of mokha" by author dave eggers. and he and mokhtar alkanshali join us now. welcome to both of you. u know it's interesting take a daily commodity coffee something that we're all very familiar with and sort of defamiarize it. you're you're explaining in this book where it comes from, how it's made, the way it's spread throughout the world, you enjoy that i can see writing about it. >> well i like to start om scratch. i had my first cup of coffee when i was 35. i had no interest in its history or i didn't know anything about it. i don't know where it came from. i didn't know it was a fruit until three years ago. so i was able to sort of follow mokhtar's discovery of coffee the histy of it which is s ally unbelievable and so many fantastical stor adventure and daring do and thievery