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Lädt ... Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Backvon Eleanor Agnew
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. An interesting contrast to the modern farm movement. Well written investigation of the motivations and discoveries of the back to the land movement in the 1970s. I'll be interested to see if the current crop of off-the-grid idealists ends up with the same disillusionments, or creates a viable alternative culture of food. ( ) Drawing on her own personal experience with homesteading as a hippie and the experience of numerous current and former back-to-the-landers of the generation that she interviewed, the author shows us just what her subtitle promised: why some hippies left not just the mainstream but civilization proper to try to live off the land, and what made them return. This is an interesting read for anyone who has questioned the sanity of the “modern” world and considered, however seriously, leaving it for ecological or social reasons. For those who dislike hippies it may be a chuckle. For those who are considering or working on an alternative to the cities and suburbs it is a book of cautionary tales. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
When Eleanor Agnew, her husband, and two young children moved to the Maine woods in 1975, the back-to-the-land movement had already attracted untold numbers of converts who had grown increasingly estranged from mainstream American society. Visionaries by the millions were moving into woods, mountains, orchards, and farmlands in order to disconnect from the supposedly deleterious influences of modern life. Fed up with capitalism, TV, Washington politics, and 9-to-5 jobs, they took up residence in log cabins, A-frames, tents, old schoolhouses, and run-down farmhouses; grew their own crops; hauled water from wells; avoided doctors in favor of natural cures; and renounced energy-guzzling appliances. This is their story, in all its glories and agonies, its triumphs and disasters (many of them richly amusing), told by a woman who experienced the simple life firsthand but has also read widely and interviewed scores of people who went back to the land. Ms. Agnew tells how they found joy and camaraderie, studied their issues of Mother Earth News, coped with frozen laundry and grinding poverty, and persevered or gave up. Most of them, it turns out, came back from freedom and self-sufficiency, either by returning to urban life or by dressing up their primitive rural existence--but they held onto the values they gained during their back-to-the-land experience. Back from the Land is filled with juicy details and inspired with a na ve idealism, but the attraction of the life it describes is undeniable. Here is a book to delight those who remember how it was, those who still kick themselves for not taking the chance, and those of a new generation who are just now thinking about it. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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