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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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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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A book with little science and a lot of soul. For someone that loves science and knowledge this is still somehow better for it

Beautifully narrated

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I enjoyed the story of his account of moving to a self sustained way of living with minimal technology. I also found it interesting and educational. As I am considering trying something a bit similar sometime, it gave me useful insight and food for thought.

Interesting and entertaining account of his journey

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I struggled to put this book down. It will make you think hard about the practices we take for granted. It will make you want to change at least some, maybe many, of the ways that you organise your own life. One of the most frightening and, at the same time, optimistic books that I have ever read. I'd like to hear more from Mark Boyle in the future. Highly recommended.

Beautifully written and pertinent to modern living

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Beautifully written and read, what a treat, I enjoyed every word and was left thinking if only the world was that nice.

Wonderful

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this is a treasure for anyone interested in hearing about going back to a life that is full of nature, is hands on, and is as far away from technology as is possible living in this world today

loved it!

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