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John Zada is an author, journalist and photographer based in Toronto, Canada.

His first book, 'In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch', was chosen by Amazon as one of its '100 Best Books of the Year' for 2019 and was a finalist for The 2020 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. The Washington Post describes it as "a quirky and oddly captivating tale." Steve Donoghue of Open Letters Monthly calls the book "as eloquent and big-hearted as, for instance, Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard."

John's work has appeared in such publications as the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Travel + Leisure, BBC, CBC, Al-Jazeera, New York Post, Explore, Maisonneuve, Montecristo, Los Angeles Review of Book ...more

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	In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch 3.97 avg rating — 1,025 ratings — published 2019 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Veils of Distortion: How the News Media Warps Our Minds 3.92 avg rating — 115 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey: An East-West Memoir 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The sowing of online propaganda and disinformation today comes as little surprise to the few prescient naysayers, who, at the dawn of the Internet Age, foresaw the dangers of a technology that allowed anyone to publish anything they pleased. But”
― John Zada, Veils of Distortion: How the News Media Warps Our Minds

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“Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticize.”
― John Zada, In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch

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“It doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things whether the Sasquatch actually exists or not.”
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