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BOOK
Title The way home : tales from a life without technology / Mark Boyle
Imprint London : Oneworld, 2019

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Trädgård, husdjur, mat & barnuppfostran  640 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript xix, 266 pages illustrations 24 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266)
"'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 explores the hard won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the spring, 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."--Publisher's website
Content Knowing my place -- Winter -- Spring -- Summer -- Autumn -- The complexities of simplicity -- Postscript -- A short note on the free hostel
Subject Boyle, Mark, 1979- -- Homes and haunts
Hem- och konsumentkunskap
Mobiltelefoner
Self-reliant living -- Case studies
Home economics, Rural -- Case studies
Mountain life -- Case studies
Cell phones -- Social aspects -- Miscellanea
Internet -- Social aspects -- Miscellanea
Social media -- Social aspects -- Miscellanea
Self-reliant living -- Ireland -- Galway (County)
Irland
Fallstudier
Nonfiction
Classmark 640
Lz Boyle, Mark
ISBN/ISSN 9781786076007 (hardback)
1786076004 (hardback)
9781786076021 (paperback)
1786076020 (paperback)
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