Download PDF Here is Where I Walk Episodes From a Life in the Forest edition by Leslie Carol Roberts Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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It is in the Presidio of San Francisco, California, that Leslie Carol Roberts walks. The Presidio, America’s only residential national park tucked wholly into an urban setting, is a fading historic forest. Here is where Leslie’s memories of other places, people, and travels emerge. Here is where the author’s home has been for more than a decade, and here is the place she raised her two children as a single mother.
In layered stories of her life and travels, Leslie turns her daily walks into revelations of deeper meaning. From Maryland to Iowa to Tasmania, we follow a fierce and keenly observant walker through places of exquisite beauty and complexity. Her daily walks inspire Leslie to accept the invitation of the beckoning trees where she finds herself colliding with the urban coyote, the peculiar banana slug, and the manzanita. She also notes both ridiculous and poignant aspects of human ecosystems in pursuit of what it means to live a life of creativity and creation from scientist-activists battling to save environments to the tragic realities of ordinary life.
In this finely crafted eco-memoir, each place provides Leslie with exactly the scaffolding needed to survive, with nature serving as the tonic. Here is Where I Walk provides a vivid answer to how we can find our place, not only in nature but within ourselves and the world we walk.
Download PDF Here is Where I Walk Episodes From a Life in the Forest edition by Leslie Carol Roberts Politics Social Sciences eBooks
"Don’t you love a good walk with a good friend? Imagine that your friend is the brilliant one who knows all the fascinating facts about an animal or plant you see, and recounts amazing anecdotes about the history of the place you are walking… and then suddenly tells you a heart-wrenching or hilarious story about her life that makes you see life in a different light. THAT is what you get with this book. You get the great good fortune of incredibly vivid descriptions of places, ideas and life stories as you walk with Leslie and share episodes from her life. Reading this you will feel you have been with her on walks in so many places that have opened her eyes and thoughts to the wonder of the world. Lucky you, to get to share these walks and her keen observations and wisdom. Your own walks will be richer and more receptive to what the forests can teach us after reading this eco-memoir."
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Here is Where I Walk Episodes From a Life in the Forest edition by Leslie Carol Roberts Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews :
Here is Where I Walk Episodes From a Life in the Forest edition by Leslie Carol Roberts Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
- This is a beautifully written book, full of revelations about a life lived in a singular and complex place. You don't need to know the Presidio to enjoy it, though I imagine even those who know it and San Francisco will appreciate the originality and thoughtfulness Roberts brings to bear in her account. What I appreciate most of all is the implicit invitation to deepen our connections to whatever places we love and want to know better. A wonderful book.
- Don’t you love a good walk with a good friend? Imagine that your friend is the brilliant one who knows all the fascinating facts about an animal or plant you see, and recounts amazing anecdotes about the history of the place you are walking… and then suddenly tells you a heart-wrenching or hilarious story about her life that makes you see life in a different light. THAT is what you get with this book. You get the great good fortune of incredibly vivid descriptions of places, ideas and life stories as you walk with Leslie and share episodes from her life. Reading this you will feel you have been with her on walks in so many places that have opened her eyes and thoughts to the wonder of the world. Lucky you, to get to share these walks and her keen observations and wisdom. Your own walks will be richer and more receptive to what the forests can teach us after reading this eco-memoir.
- You are drawn into a world of keen observation of our civilization with an emphasis on the natural world. The author's wide travels and broad education equip her for an array of comparisons and contrasts. This frees her from the bounds of a typical suburban upbringing while always drawing the reader back to the history and ecology of her home in the Presidio in San Francisco. A very worthy and introspective read alone yet more than suitable for book club readings or as a gift to a nature lover.
- I have really enjoyed this read so far. Living in a forest myself, I have found inspiration from the way Roberts allows us to enter her mind and go on a journey with her and simultaneously learning about the Presidio. What I used to think as superfluous, has now made its way into my own journals. This is a read that will open your heart and mind to anything nature.
related. - The prose, simultaneously as grand and homey as the Presidio itself, welcomes the reader into the author's life, while the narrative keeps the book glued to one's hands. A triumph!
