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Belated thanks for your Howard Waldrop note. I always wanted to meet him, never did. Maybe I'll strike it lucky in an alternate history sometime.

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What a beautiful sentiment. That may well happen

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"there will never be a more just society unless we first attend to our damaged relationship with the land on which we live" -- I so agree with your statement here! Please keep your work where it can be accessed, about all the "weeds" and the migrations of birds, butterflies, the small and large animals. We have such a great opportunity right now, with the chaos, to speak up.

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Thank you so much! 🙏

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Your fascinating note on Peking Man diet and hackberries reminds me of the intriguing work at Useful Wild Plants in Austin

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Thanks, and thanks for the tip—will check them out!

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FROSTWEEDS!!!!!!! thanks for the intro :)

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They are wondrous—and took me many seasons to understand and really appreciate.

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Frostweed. Ice flowers. Wow! Thanks for the photos of this.

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Ice flowers - stunning. I've never seen anything like this in the UK. Your post has me learning such a lot, Christopher.

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Thank you! ❄️💙🙏

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Christopher, any insight on how I can get an audiobook copy of Tropic of Kansas in Australia? All the usual outlets appear to have it geo-blocked

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Sorry to hear that. You might try Downpour (Blackstone), which published the audiobook under contract with Harper (whereas Harper did the audio versions of my other two novels with them in-house): https://www.downpour.com/tropic-of-kansas?sp=193052

Another possibility would be to try to buy the audio version that's MP3s on CD: https://www.amazon.com/Tropic-Kansas-Christopher-Brown/dp/1538438097/ref=tmm_abk_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1706272473&sr=1-1

Here's a copy of the CD's on eBay for a decent price: https://www.amazon.com/Tropic-Kansas-Christopher-Brown/dp/1538438097/ref=tmm_abk_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1706272473&sr=1-1

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Thanks so much for the direction. Unfortunately downpour is locked and I lack a physical CD player. Will try circumventing their geofence. Thanks again - I did want to play fair first

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Maybe you could get an Australian publisher to buy the rights...🤓. Thanks for trying!

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