Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island by Fleeson, Lucinda
Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island by Fleeson, Lucinda

Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island

Like so many of us, Lucinda Fleeson wanted to escape what had become a routine life. So,...
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Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island by Fleeson, Lucinda

Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island

CHF 21.56
Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island by Fleeson, Lucinda

Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island

CHF 21.56
Author: Lucinda Fleeson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Like so many of us, Lucinda Fleeson wanted to escape what had become a routine life. So, she quit her big-city job, sold her suburban house, and moved halfway across the world to the island of Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Imagine a one-hundred-acre garden estate nestled amid ocean cliffs, rain forests, and secluded coves. Exotic and beautiful, yes, but as Fleeson awakens to this sensual world, exploring the island's food, beaches, and history, she encounters an endangered paradise--the Hawaii we don't see in the tourist brochures.

Native plants are dying at an astonishing rate--Hawaii is called the Extinction Capital of the World--and invasive species (plants, animals, and humans) have imperiled this Garden of Eden. Fleeson accompanies a plant hunter into the rain forest to find the last of a dying species, descends into limestone caves with a paleontologist who deconstructs island history through fossil life, and shadows a botanical pioneer who propagates rare seeds, hoping to reclaim the landscape. Her grown-up adventure is a reminder of the value of choosing passion over security, individuality over convention, and the pressing need to protect the earth. And as she witnesses the island's plant renewal efforts, she sees her own life blossom again.


Author: Lucinda Fleeson
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.50w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9781565124868


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2009
Booklist 05/01/2009 pg. 52
Publishers Weekly 05/18/2009 pg. 47
Foreword 06/16/2009

About the Author
Lucinda Fleeson is director of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. She was a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer for many years and has been awarded an Arthur Rouse Award for Press Criticism, a McGee Journalism Fellowship in Southern Africa, a Knight International Press Fellowship, and a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Before settling in Washington DC, she lived in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Budapest, Botswana, and, most notably, Kauai.


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