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It is the 1960s in California. World events, the loss of a job, and the near death of a traveling companion propel Jeannette Hanby into an unknown future. Her personal odyssey leads her to the Big Sur Coast, where she finds jobs, celebrities, companions, friendship, and romance. One remarkable man tempts her into the wild canyons of the Sierra Nevada and recruits her into a gold mining venture on the Feather River. While coping with camp life and the relationships within a small group in a remote wilderness, she learns to appreciate natural history, which changes the course of her life journey Travel back to a simpler time. Explore wild places. Meet unusual characters and discover unexpected treasures. Follow this adventurous young woman as she learns life's lessons while seeking a path to happiness. This memoir is illustrated with photos by the author and line drawings by David Bygott.

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Jeannette Hanby's thoughtful, appealing, and often lyrical memoir of California's 1960s hippie scene ranges from the glories of Big Sur to the soul-wrenching hard work of gold mining in the Sierra Nevada. David Bygott's illustrations not only support the narrative but supply the book with their own beauty. - Wynne Brown, author of The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art A real-life time travel adventure to fall in love with in a thousand ways. Hanby's picturesque narrative of her youthful, mid-60s California derring-do has more colorful characters than a bushel of crayons. Bygott's succulent pen drawings illuminate every couple pages to stick the scenes to your brain like honey. Altogether, it's a visual celebration of life, love, joy, grinding work, muddy roads, slick trails, naked gardening, all in service of the lust for gold. Oh, and there's also a VW beetle named Hesperus. - E.T. Ellison, author of Book of the Year winner The Luck of Madonna 13

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Jeannette Hanby has taken on jobs ranging from working with abused and abandoned children in Los Angeles County to placer gold mining in the Sierra Nevada mountains. After completing her Ph.D. dissertation in Oregon on monkeys, she went to Cambridge in England for further study of primates, one of whom, David Bygott, became her husband in 1973.Together, they studied lion biology in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park and have since worked as conservation educators, university lecturers, safari guides, writers, and artists. Together, Jeannette and David have produced numerous guidebooks, educational booklets, activity books, and museum displays in both English and Swahili.They live in an intentional community in Tucson, Arizona, still learning about primate behavior, as well as continuing to travel and explore the world. David Bygott began observing wildlife and drawing as a child exploring the countryside of southern England. He was finishing his Ph.D. thesis on wild chimpanzee behavior when he met Jeannette, his partner in field research, conservation, and business for almost five decades.

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