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The Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award-winning author of Diet for a New America traces how he lost his savings to the Madoff scam and gained insights into the virtues of frugality, outlining a counter-intuitive plan for fulfilling, low-cost and environmentally friendly living.

John Robbins is the author of the million-copy bestseller Diet for a New America, which became a PBS series. He is the recipient of the Rachel Carson Award and the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award and is the founder of the nonprofit organization EarthSave International. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, theLos Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. He has appeared on many television shows, includingThe Oprah Winfrey Show. He lives in Soquel, California.


Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, a frequent contributor to the London Daily Telegraph, a breakfast radio broadcaster on 2UE954AM in Sydney, and has interviewed everyone from President George Bush Snr to Edmund Hillary to Diego Maradona. He is also a popular after-dinner speaker and the only Wallaby sent from the field against the All Blacks---unjustly, he swears, Peter is the author of sixteen other books---including biographies of Nancy Wake, Kim Beazley, Nene King, Nick Farr-Jones, Steve Waugh and John Eales---and was Australia's bestselling non-fiction writer in 2001 and 2004. His last military work was the number-one bestselling book Kokoda. He lives with his journalist wife Lisa Wilkinson and their three young children in Sydney.

The author visited Tobruk in April 2006, and before departing laid a flower on the grave of Victorian soldier Ron Barassi Snr VX45220.