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Lyn Fuchs

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Born

Sacramento, California, The United States

Website

http://lynfuchs.blogspot.com

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Genre

Travel, Philosophy, Humor

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spiritual books and primal wilderness

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February 2012

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Lyn Fuchs should be called Lyndiana Jones. He has survived enraged grizzlies, erupting volcanoes, Japanese swordfights and giant squid tentacles. He has been entrapped by FBI agents and held at gunpoint by renegade soldiers. He has sung with Bulgaria's bluesmaster Vasko the Patch and met with Mexico's Zapatista Army commander Marcos. He has been thrown out of forbidden temples in southern India and passed out in sweat lodges off the Alaskan coast. His navel has been inhabited by beetles and his genitals have been cursed by eunuchs. He has shared coffee with presidents, beer with pirates and goat guts with polygamists. He has contracted malaria, typhoid, salmonella and lovesickness around the world. All these adventures and more are found in Lyn Fuchs should be called Lyndiana Jones. He has survived enraged grizzlies, erupting volcanoes, Japanese swordfights and giant squid tentacles. He has been entrapped by FBI agents and held at gunpoint by renegade soldiers. He has sung with Bulgaria's bluesmaster Vasko the Patch and met with Mexico's Zapatista Army commander Marcos. He has been thrown out of forbidden temples in southern India and passed out in sweat lodges off the Alaskan coast. His navel has been inhabited by beetles and his genitals have been cursed by eunuchs. He has shared coffee with presidents, beer with pirates and goat guts with polygamists. He has contracted malaria, typhoid, salmonella and lovesickness around the world. All these adventures and more are found in his books Sacred Ground & Holy Water and Fresh Wind & Strange Fire.

Lyn's writing habit began when heavy snow sealed him for weeks into a log cabin amidst the thick timber of Canada's craggy mountains. Life was forever changed. With nothing to do but observe minute details and reflect upon them, he spent silent solitary hours grasping for exact words to convey his experience to others, for when that connection would be restored. Meditations transformed into magazine articles. From eye to mind to pen, the journeys of his life were distilled into the stories that now make up his first book, to the very last one written on an isolated Mexican ranch under a fiery sunset and the influence of tequila. His spirit is within the pages too. If you aren't currently holed up at a snowy cabin or a sunny ranch but wish you were, he hopes you'll let Sacred Ground & Holy Water or Fresh Wind & Strange Fire take you there.

You may find Lyn in the Mexican desert or the rainforest, but you won't find his byline on anything that doesn't captivate, amuse, inform and inspire. He is a university professor with advanced degrees in communication and philosophy. The phrase "philosophical adventure" describes both his writing and his life. He doesn't have a phone, but he does have an iguana. He enjoys hiking, coffee, meditation and hearing from readers like you at lynfuchs@gmail.com. Check out his Sacred Ground Travel Magazine at lynfuchs.blogspot.com. ...more

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Papaloapan University Ranks Third in Mexico

The Universidad del Papaloapan took third place in the nationwide Becalos competition. I am so proud of my team. This was the first year that our little English department participated in the online challenge with medicine, nursing, chemistry, biotec, and business students from smalltown Oaxaca sweating in the rainforest to outperform many of Mexico's far bigger and wealthier universities. Con Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.54 · 28 ratings · 17 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Sacred Ground & Holy Water: One Man's Adventures in the Wild 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	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
	Fresh Wind & Strange Fire: One Man's Adventures in Primal Mexico liked it 3.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	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
	Sacred Ground & Holy Water: One Man's Adventures in the Wild by Lyn Fuchs (2011-05-11) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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

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