Ebook: Waking up in Eden : in pursuit of an impassioned life on an imperiled island
Author: Fleeson Lucinda
- Tags: Fleeson Lucinda. Kauai (Hawaii) -- Environmental conditions. Kauai (Hawaii) -- Description and travel. Fleeson Lucinda -- Travel -- Hawaii -- Kauai. National Tropical Botanical Garden. Endangered plants -- Hawaii -- Kauai. Tropical plants -- Hawaii -- Kauai. Endemic plants -- Hawaii -- Kauai. Wildlife recovery -- Hawaii -- Kauai.
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- City: Chapel Hill, N.C., Kauai (Hawaii), Hawaii--Kauai
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
Recounts the author's decision to leave her big-city job and move to the island of Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, an exotic vocation that exposed her to both Hawaii's natural wonders and the endangered species that are falling prey to invasive plants, animals, and humans.
Abstract: Recounts the author's decision to leave her big-city job and move to the island of Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, an exotic vocation that exposed her to both Hawaii's natural wonders and the endangered species that are falling prey to invasive plants, animals, and humans