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The Way Home
- Tales from a Life Without Technology
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
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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- Amazon Customer
- 25-08-21
loved it
really engaging, inspirational and makes me want to unplug, loved how detailed the book was.
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- BENEDICT SHALLCROSS
- 18-09-21
Amazing and inspiring!
loved it, really compelling and inspiring to pay attention to what is important in life and not consume more than you need! would absolutely recommend, witty and heart felt words.
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- Ms. A. L. Hawksworth
- 30-08-21
lovely to listen to
really enjoyed listening to this, both the writing and the reading of the book was very soothing. don't listen unless you are prepared to want to leave it all behind - which would include audible. funny that his experience, which not so long ago would have been humdrum, is now worth writing a book about. maybe not funny. maybe it's really really sad.
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- LC
- 14-08-21
Interesting and entertaining account of his journey
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.
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- Paul McFerra
- 18-08-21
Great listen
Loved this book, oh to go back to the days before the smart phone, living life how it was meant to be lived!!
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- michael burthom
- 09-11-21
Very excellent and inspirational
This book is a very excellent and inspirational essay on a person trying to achieve his life's journey.
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- Neil Hopkins
- 13-01-22
fabulous
my favorite book of all time, everyone should read it, this version is narrated well
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- TB
- 08-03-22
Wistful, Inspiring and Beautiful
Once I had become used to the changes in time in the paragraphs, this book threw up great questions to contemplate and a yearning to appreciate nature in the same depth.
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- Amblin Krop
- 19-03-20
Very soothing read
Narrator and book are both excellent. Definitely recommend this to anyone who feels they can't quite get behind modern society.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-06-22
Enlightenment
Excellent storytelling. If you didn't want to leave the tech world behind before, you certainly will after!
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