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Frank Burnaby

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Born

Los Angeles, The United States

Website

http://www.FrankBurnaby.com

Genre

Memoir, Romance, Adventure

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Suzuki Roshi, Vladamir Nabokov, Robinson Jeffers-poet, Kevin O'riordin ...more

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November 2012

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Frank Burnaby is a poet, traveler, sailor, and storyteller. He worked as a gifted and successful lighting designer in Los Angeles for many years. Then moving to an island in the Pacific Northwest, he devoted his time to raising his sons, writing, and to the creation of a wilderness school focused on the developmental needs of 7-13 year old children to experience nature.

As a youth, he survived his parent’s good intentions of enrolling him in military school in seventh grade where he learned to disassemble and reassemble his rifle with his eyes closed, and to pull weeds for not having a mirror shine on his shoes. For high school they sent him away to boarding school in New Jersey.

In 1969 after a stint at San Francisco State University film s ...more

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Island Born

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“Only the dreamer can change the dream...”
― John Logan

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“...The dog (the poet) is on top of a locomotive,”.... “He’s got a box full of track, and he’s frenetically laying down track in front of the train.”
― Billy Collins

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