{"product_id":"the-way-home-tales-from-a-life-without-technology-english-edition","title":"The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology (English Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn honest, radical and moving account of life off the grid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this upfront 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Boyle's memoir of his first year off-grid is fascinating… A poetic meditation on the almost-mystical benefits of falling in sync with nature .’ — New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘ A warts-and-all look at an extreme way of life , but one that, by the end of this engrossing book, makes the world around it seem dysfunctional.’ — Irish Independen t , BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘ A beautiful and thought-provoking story that will inspire you to live differently . Mark asks the most fundamental questions then sets out to live the answers.’ Lily Cole, model and activist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54009327288688,"sku":"978-1786076014","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_6296_40b0ec218f.jpg?v=1783582979","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/de\/products\/the-way-home-tales-from-a-life-without-technology-english-edition","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}