{"product_id":"2940169580853","title":"The Way Home: Tales from a Life without Technology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern-day \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e-an honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life lived in nature without modern technology. Mark Boyle, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Moneyless Man\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102162141424,"sku":"2940169580853","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169580853_p0.jpg?v=1769897332","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169580853","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}