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Woodsqueer - Crafting a Sustainable Life in Rural Maine (Paperback)
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Woodsqueer - Crafting a Sustainable Life in Rural Maine (Paperback)
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List price R528
Loot Price R443
Discovery Miles 4 430
You Save R85 (16%)
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“Woodsqueer” is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a
person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time.
Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire
pace of the twenty-first century, which can often lead to a kind of
stir-craziness. Woodsqueer chronicles her experiences intentionally
focusing on not just making a living but making a life—in this
case, an agrarian one more in tune with the earth on eighty acres
in backwoods Maine. Building a home with her partner, Ruth, on
their farm means learning to live with solitude, endless trees, and
the wild animals the couple come to welcome as family. Whether
trying to outsmart their goats, calculating how much firewood they
need for the winter, or bartering with neighbors for goods and
services, they hone life skills brought with them (carpentry,
tracking and hunting wild game) and other skills they learn along
the way (animal husbandry, vegetable gardening, woodcutting).
Legler’s story is at times humbling and grueling, but it is also
amusing. A homage to agrarian American life echoing the
back-to-the-land movement popularized in the mid-twentieth century,
Woodsqueer reminds us of the benefits of living close to the land.
Legler unapologetically considers what we have lost in America, in
less than a century—individually and collectively—as a result
of our urban, mass-produced, technology-driven lifestyles.
Illustrated with rustic pen-and-ink illustrations, Woodsqueer shows
the value of a solitary sojourn and both the pathway to and
possibilities for making a sustainable, meaningful life on the
land. The result, for Legler and her partner, is an evolution of
their humanity as they become more physically, emotionally, and
even spiritually connected to their land and each other in a
complex ecosystem ruled by the changing seasons.
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