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The Way Home

Tales from a Life Without Technology

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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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What an immensely powerful book.

I recently listened to Peace is every step by Thich Naht Hanh and was not taken with it.

This book by Mark Boyle gives so much more about the life that he chose to give up tech media and the trappings of a 1st world western society and to be in tune with the world around him.

It is uplifting and has made me rethink some small things in my life I need to change.
His Boffy in Ireland sounds wonderful and would be a welcome retreat for a soul in need.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful story.

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It was a pleasure to listen to and the story was so inspirational to what I am interested in, maybe so much so that I wish I have got this in book form instead of using technology.

Interesting listen and well read.

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decent story, fast paced, the irony of listening to an audiobook which focuses solely on the shedding of technology isn't lost on me...

Insightful.

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Makes me want to run screaming from the life I currently lead to take up a simple life in the country.

Gorgeous

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Comforted by the Irish storytelling and tales.
Discomforted by the raw truths of how unsustainable our modern living is.
It’s one man’s musings, at times idiosyncratic and at others very admirable.
However I loved listening to it and finished it in a few days, I thought I lived a ‘conscious’ and or ‘simple’ sort of life living in the Irish countryside but by golly no where near as detached as this and I found myself yearning for more….

Like an old Irish storyteller…

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