Back from the Land How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back

Name: Back from the Land How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back
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ISBN: 9781566636643

ISBN-10: 1566636647

ISBN-13: 9781566636643

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Authors: Eleanor Agnew

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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. 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. 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…

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List price: $16.95
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Publication date: 7/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface



The Lure of Back to the Land



Early Days in a Technology-free Zone



The Height of Happiness



Getting Close to Nature and Natural Processes



Not-so-genteel Poverty



Generating Cash Flow



Staying Healthy, and Paying for It



Relationships-Friends, Lovers, Family, Community



Turning Points



Finding a Niche in the Mainstream



Lessons and Legacies


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index