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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 thoroughly enjoyed this listen. Great insight into a life without technology, something I find myself drawn to day by day. I’ve taken the small step of deleting my social media after listening. Maybe one day I will take further steps to live the simple (but complex) life.

The way the writer mixes stories of personal experience with his own thoughts about the state of the modern world and it’s profound effect on humans and nature makes for an enjoyable listen which I have taken much from. The Irish reader makes the whole thing feel very authentic and adds character. Would recommend.

Lovely insight into a life without technology

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Beautiful escape from daily life lovely ambition I feel inspired beyond belief thank you

Grounding

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Amazing book, made me want to flush my phone down the toilet and go grow my own food. Inspiring without being excluding. Very well written, well read and engaging, will definitely listen again.

How To Be Free

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I was totally captivated by Mark's story. His journey minus tech is fascinating, beautiful and massively challenging. It's inspiring and deepens one's innate connection with nature.

Amazing!

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