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Leslie Buck

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https://www.lesliebuckauthor.com/home

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Gardening, Travel, Memoir

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April 2017

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Personal and insightful podcast interviews, photos from Cutting Back and more are on Leslie's website: Lesliebuckauthor.com. Leslie's three season apprenticeship dramatic tale not only became a best-selling non-fiction book, but received a NYTime book review, was reviewed in the Washington Post and SF Chronicle. Leslie has an in-depth interview on the NPR's podcast Cultivating Place https://www.cultivatingplace.com/sing... . If you are curious about what it would be like to work alongside dedicated garden craftsmen of Japan inside a historic Kyoto landscaping company, Leslie Buck’s new garden memoir gives readers a first-hand look.
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Leslie Buck rated a book it was amazing A Japanese Art Journey: A Curator's Memoir of Polka Dot Pumpkins, Paper Dolls and Woodblock Prints by Meher McArthur	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
A profoundly multi-cultural and inspiring journey. How lovely to meander along the path of a woman’s lifelong study of ancient and contemporary Japanese arts. From the first pages of this unexpected memoir, I was pulled into McArthur's journey studyi ...more
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“When the muscle learns something before the brain, the lesson penetrates the consciousness more deeply.”
― Leslie Buck, Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto

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Ladies thank you for your patience! Here is our Nonfiction poll of nominations for the months of May and June.

This poll will remain open thru April 21st.

Good luck to those nominating...

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

by Catherine Clinton

9 votes, 32.1%

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

by Elizabeth Letts

6 votes, 21.4%

Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

by Deborah Blum

5 votes, 17.9%

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

by Daniel James Brown

4 votes, 14.3%

Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto

by Leslie Buck

2 votes, 7.1%

Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century

by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

2 votes, 7.1%

28 total votes

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