Ian is an award winning author. His "Failsafe: Saving the Earth From Ourselves" received the Silver Medal in the Nature Conservation category from the 2014 Living Now Awards. "Redemption: A Novel" was Gold Medal winner in General Fiction of the 2015 Florida Book Festival.Author, Poet, Professor Emeritus, Founder of Friends for Peace, Spiritual Warrior for planetary care, peace and social justice. Zen teacher since 1997, he offers public talks and retreats all over the world. Ian lives in Ottawa, Canada and encourages people to find their true nature, so that humanity and the planet may be renewed. He mostly stays local to help turn the tide in his home city so that good things begin to happen spontaneously. Full Profile at ianprattis.com/Profile.html J. Charpentier:Ian Prattis, Zen Teacher, Professor Emeritus, peace and environmentalactivist, was born in the UK. He has spent much of his life living and teaching in Canada.His moving and eye-opening books are a memorable experience for anyone whoenjoys reading about primordial tendencies. Beneath the polished urban facade remains a part of human nature that few want to acknowledge, either due to fear or simply because it is easier to deny the basic instincts that have kept us alive on an unforgiving earth. Prattis bravely goes there in his outstanding literary work.”Read more about this authorRead less about this author