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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.

©2019 Mark Boyle (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Inspiring Biographies & Memoirs Conservation Environment Personal Development Outdoors & Nature Environmentalists & Naturalists Personal Success Animals Emotionally Gripping Power Resources Biological Sciences Science Professionals & Academics Engineering
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Thought-provoking Content • Inspiring Message • Fantastic Narration • Honest Account • Profound Insights • Irish Lilt

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Mark caught me from the moment I started listening to the book. Several years ago I started my journey to lead a more simple life. I won't make it as far as he has - I'm a 67 year old single woman with many physical limitations. But, there are actions I have taken already. Such as turning off the news, disengaging from social networks, repurposing more and more of my items, recycling, growing my own food, trying to live small in a world that celebrates consumption, indulgence, the quick fix, and living BIG. "The Way Home " reinforces my actions and gives me hope that more and more people will take note and follow the path to a simpler life.

inspirational

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I hope everyone gets the opportunity to be inspired by this title, simple and true to the heart.

AMAZING

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I feel guilty listening to this on my phone and not doing more to help the earth.

Stricken

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I liked everything. I want to find a permanent place like this. I’ve been over society for a long time.

This is true freedom

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without being presumptuous, this book complels me to look at the life I'm living, and how I not only CAN but would BENEFIT from living more SIMPLY. GREAT READ!!

life changing read

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