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On an institutional level, Harvard and Berkeley served as centers of gravity in my educational career. Owe an undergraduate education, to my parents, Margaret and Charles Redfield, a belief in the possibility of virtue, and to my brothers, Marc and Tim, a sense of expanding, disparate, horizons. To my maternal grandparents, Jean and William Wolfe, I The Russian name of the first satellite, Sputnik, can be translated as “Fellow Traveler” in this sense I claim a constellation of companions, without whose influence my trajectory would have been quite different.įirst, I acknowledge my family, who have given me constant encouragement, as well as confirmation that life can be lived in idiosyncratic ways. Authorship is rarely a singular condition, and in a project focused on context a gesture toward biography seems only fair for the reader. Along the way, from place to place and sentence to sentence, the assistance and inspiration of numerous people have proved invaluable. Given the theme of the work, I must admit that extensive dislocation has filtered my view of the tropics described-and yet, though it may have muted certain sights and sounds, contrast with these other places has sharpened the focus and lent acuity to the description of movement. Then it was on to other Californias-the woods of Santa Cruz, the high desert of Deep Springs, and a beachfront in Santa Monica-before winter wind in Cambridge, Massachusetts, weathered hills in Jerusalem, summer heat in Austin, faded brick in Baltimore, and now a stand of quiet pines near a town named for Ralegh. I have carried French Guiana with me from Cayenne to Berkeley, California, through the Mediterranean coast of France, an arrondissement or two of Paris, a village or two in the former Czechoslovakia, and the blue coastline of Martinique. By now this meditation on place has crossed many settings and climes.