The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology

Mark Boyle

ISBN 10: 152886347X / ISBN 13: 9781528863476

Published by Clipper Large Print Books, 2019

About this Item

Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology
• Publisher: Clipper Large Print Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 152886347X
• ISBN 13: 9781528863476
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 2 pounds

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Synopsis

It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.

No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce.

In this honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life without modern technology, Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Man, explores the hard won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging and fishing.

What he finds is an elemental life, one governed by the rhythms of the sun and seasons, where life and death dance in a primal landscape of blood, wood, muck, water, and fire – much the same life we have lived for most of our time on earth. Revisiting it brings a deep insight into what it means to be human at a time when the boundaries between man and machine are blurring.