Author’s Page: Robin Easton

Robin Easton (AKA Rainforest Robin) is an adventurer. She spent much of her adult life in wild and remote areas including, Alaska, Tasmania, Australia’s tropical and subtropical rainforest and the far north woods of Maine. Robin has traveled to New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, and has lived throughout Europe. She is a writer, speaker, musician, and nature photographer.

Robin’s father taught her how to handle a canoe, use a bow and arrow, how to fish, hike, camp and rock hound. He sparked her interest in wild edible and medicinal plants and instilled in her a creative and freethinking way of life. He encouraged her to always be adventurous and inquisitive.

At age of twenty-five, Robin walked away from society. She left the United States and went to live with her husband in the remote tropical Daintree Rainforest of Queensland, Australia. Robin is extremely passionate about this rainforest; it is one of the world’s oldest tropical rainforest, home to a vast number of rare and threatened species. Over the years Robin has been involved in helping to create awareness of this sacred forest.

Robin’s true-life stories entertain, educate and inspire. While living in Australia, kangaroos, birds and bandicoots befriended her as her bare feet shared paths with foot-long centipedes, bird eating spiders, leeches and ticks. She learned to handle and identify some of the world’s deadliest snakes. Robin’s speaks passionately about the tenacity of all life, and believes all life to be sacred, whether it’s the flying fox or the salt water crocodile. “True knowledge and understanding are potent keys to overcoming our fear of potentially deadly and often misunderstood life forms.”

One of Robin’s most remarkable rainforest experiences was the gift of music. During her last year in the rainforests of Australia she began to dream beautiful music. When she returned to the United States she sat at a piano and played as if she’d played for ten years. Unable to read music, Robin has performed on the east coast, and recorded on both the east and west coasts.

When not working on her second book, Robin loves hiking, camping, canoeing, swimming, nature photography, gardening and almost anything that gets her into the wild. She also enjoys playing the Native American courting flute, composing piano solos, singing, roller-skating, pottery, glass fusing, digging ditches, skiing, travel, and time spent laughing and sharing with friends.

Robin is the author of “Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awaking in the Australian Rainforest.”  Her story has been told on an award-winning NBC News affiliate piece, Paul Harvey News, KBLA Radio, KSFR and others. She’s appeared in magazines and newspapers throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Please visit Robin at her blog: Naked in Eden

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