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Title: Quests : by David M Burns ISBN: 0-595-21175-5 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Summary: Poignant and compelling autobiography and history.
Comment: Autobiography of David Burns, 1928-1949. Book-obsessed childhood in The Depression in a small town in Kentucky; running away from home on his 15th birthday; three years in Washington in Capitol Page School, dropping out many times, never completing first semester of tenth grade; copy boy and photographer's apprentice at The Evening Star newspaper; three years in the Air Force; managing somehow to be admitted to Princeton. The autobiography is intererspersed with four vivid chapters of 'imaginary ancestors': Long Hunters in 18th century Kentucky; pioneers on The Wilderness Road from Cumberland Gap; building gristmills and sawmills; and the legacy of coal mining, which has left much of Appalachia, land AND people, depleted.

David Burns studied in France on a Fulbright grant, and then joined the U.S. Foreign Service, posted to Damascus, Beirut, Isfahan, Salisbury Rhodesia, Tunis, Bamako Mali, Tangier Morocco, and Algiers. In 1977 he joine the American Association for the Advancement of Science as Project Director for a 12-year study of greenhouse climate change. He is the author of Gateway: Dr. Thomas Walker and the Opening of Kentucky, and his opeds, profiles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and other magazines and newspapers. He is also a bandleader has recorded four LPs and four CDs.

Two back cover photos summarize much of the autobiographical half: one, a 15-year-old 'hobo' in Atlanta in 1943; the second, an 18-year-old Air Force cryptographer, studying. . .'prep school by mail' in the Azores in 1947.