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Here is Where I Walk

Episodes From a Life in the Forest
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While living in the Presidio National Park, Leslie Carol Roberts became enchanted with the park's 125-year old forest, native plant and habitat restoration, serpentine rock formations, and wild beaches just outside the Golden Gate. Roberts unearths stories of scientists, spiritualists, and artists around the globe engaged with specific and peculiar places, from the Indiana Dunes to Tasmanian euc forests to the work of landscape painters, to Iowa classrooms in this memoir pursuing an understanding what it means to live a life of creativity and creation.
Leslie Carol Roberts is an author, journalist and essayist. She has written hundreds of articles and essays for publications, including the Bellevue Literary Review, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Sydney Morning Herald Bangkok Nation, the Baltimore Sun. Roberts teaches at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California where she is Professor and Chair of the MFA Writing Program. She lives in the Presidio National Park with her two children.
"A profound meditation on the intersection of many different histories, lives, and fates, all of which reveal different facets of a thoroughly engaging literary imagination." --Christopher Merrill, director of the Iowa International Writing Program, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood "A series of absorbing, funny, tragic, and deeply present ruminations . . . packed with a scientist's curiosity and an artist's imagination . . . a lesson in how to accept, relish, and even seek out change." --John D'Agata, author of About a Mountain "These walks with Leslie Carol Roberts ---by turns exhilarating, heart-breaking, and informative--are always just what I need." --Camille Dungy, author of Soil; Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. "Roberts expertly crafts a narrative both of the places she's traveled and the events that have shaped her own emotional terrain." --Library Journal "The book paints a sharp picture of the natural and historical aspects of the Presidio, which acts as platform that inspires broader consideration of the environment.... There is a certain beauty and elegance in Roberts's words and the rhythm and cadence of her writing. All the while, her text exudes a deep love and respect for the world around her. Simply put, Here Is Where I Walk is a breath of fresh air." --Foreword Reviews ... a wonderful combination of scientific thought and poetic expression." --Seattle Book Review
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