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The Way Home

Tales from a Life Without Technology

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The Way Home

Written 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.

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Title piqued my interest as we all feel the need to disconnect from technology and a desire to be closer to the nature, people, traditions. However, author has taken it to other extreme. Also, fee contradictions. He lives without money. However, it was not clear how does he pay for booze in bars. He gave up all technology, but isn’t bicycle a form or technology? His goal is to live in sustainable manner with minimal consumption and then he builds a bathtub, and heats water by burning wood underneath.

I was hoping for a more balanced lifestyle, but it turned out to be a very extreme and only an eccentric person can think of doing something like this.

What’s the point of such a life that you can meet your parents only once a year. There is no way for your family and friends to connect with you.

Fancy, but too far from being practical

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