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The Way Home

Tales from a Life Without Technology

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The Way Home

By: Mark Boyle
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
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About this listen

It was 11:00 pm 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.

The Way Home is a modern-day Walden - an honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life lived in nature 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.

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This is the most inspirational life changing book I have ever listened to! I didn’t want it to end and binge listened to it over a weekend.
Beautifully written, this book is gentle and loving as well as offering a wealth of information on the subject of living off grid. I can’t recommend highly enough. Well narrated too!

Life changing!

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Mark offers a fascinating insight into his daily life and catalogues his journey and feelings as he lives a more sustainable existence close to nature and without the destruction and distraction of modern technology one which our ancestors would have known only to well.

As I listened intently to him, the irony was not lost on me that has Mark has made recent changes to live without modern technology that I was intact enabled to listen to him via it! via Audiobook, purchased via the internet on my heavily mined and unsustainable smartphone.

I respect his choices even if I'm not certain I fully agree with them all. Regardless of that Mark has made these changes with the best intentions and as the Gandhi once said you must 'Be the change you want to see in the world.' I onehundred percent agree with that.

Dia dhaoibh Mark

A fascinating perspective .

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Mark really gives you food for thought. If you like Thoreau then you’re probably going to like The Way Home. He has strong views without preaching and while some aspects to his life I may not fully agree with (stopped being vegan) I respect the way that he lives and the integrity he lives with

Great book to challenge the modern way of thinking

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Beautiful words, beautiful sentiments, beautifully read. This book doesn’t shy away from discussing the inherent contradictions that from living a life free from modern technology. I have no wish to follow in his footsteps but it has inspired me to think more deeply about my life - and make changes.

Thoughtful and inspiring

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I’d love to possess the literary skills to properly sum up how I feel about this work. Alas never my strong point. Suffice to say this piece of work utterly moved me. I laughed, cried and hung every word.
Simply stunning. Please listen and love it the way I have done.

Wow. Just wow.

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