VT author Tim Brookes

Event Venue:
Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, VT

Event Date & Time:
20 August, 2010 - 20 August, 2010
07:00 PM to 08:00 PM

Author Event at Brown Dog Books & Gifts

Vermont Author

Tim Brookes

presents his newest book

Thirty Percent Chance of Elightenment

A new travel book by Tim Brookes that begins when a National Geographic assignment, to go to India and watch the monsoon come ashore,

goes gloriously wrong.

“If everything had gone as planned, it would have been a very dull trip,” says Brookes. “Luckily, that didn’t happen.”
Two days after arriving in India, Brookes’ plans to experience the monsoon through meteorological forecasting and the observatory windows in Trivandrum took a sharp left over the edge of a very tall cliff. Due to miscommunication and a clerical error, Brookes was banned from every single office of the

 India Meteorological Department.

Driven by a heady blend of suppressed panic, dismay, and journalistic obligation, Brookes set out on a cross-India trek in a car provided by an Australian spiritual tour guide. “If I couldn’t talk to meteorologists, I had to talk to ordinary people,” says Brookes. “I found that everything I’d been told about monsoon forecasting was wrong; nobody paid the slightest bit of attention to it.”

Meet author Tim Brookes at Brown Dog Books & Gifts

for a lively reading and engaging conversation.

For more information please call 802-482-2878.

Meet  Vermont author Tim Brookes

Date: Friday August 20, 2010

Time: 7pm

Let us know if you can’t make it- we can have a book signed for you!

Mr. Brookes’s books will be available at the event from Brown Dog Books & Gifts Firehouse Plaza (with Estey Hardware) Hinesburg Vermont 05461  802-482-5189