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🏃‍♂️ Off The Grid

Stories of radical self-sufficiency and deliberate disappearance, where characters shed modern life's tethers to find freedom, danger, or themselves in the margins of civilization.
The Way of the Hermit
by Ken Smith • 2023
One man, a remote Scottish loch, a hand-built cabin, and forty years of solitude and storms.
4.21
3k+
🏚️ Off-Grid Living🏕️ Wilderness Survival🍄 Foraging
The Way of the Hermit Summary
The Way of the Hermit 91%
One man, a remote Scottish loch, a hand-built cabin, and forty years of solitude and storms.
by Ken Smith 2023
4.21
3k+ ratings
🏚️ Off-Grid Living🏕️ Wilderness Survival🍄 Foraging
How to Survive Off the Grid
by Tim MacWelch • 2016
The off-grid blueprint: energy, water, food, medicine, and self-defense when no one is coming.
3.98
115
🏡 Off-Grid Living🌾 Homesteading☀️ Renewable Energy
How to Survive Off the Grid Summary
How to Survive Off the Grid 90%
The off-grid blueprint: energy, water, food, medicine, and self-defense when no one is coming.
by Tim MacWelch 2016
3.98
115 ratings
🏡 Off-Grid Living🌾 Homesteading☀️ Renewable Energy
Back to Basics
by Abigail R. Gehring • 2007
Build a home, grow your food, power it yourself: illustrated encyclopedia of self-sufficient living.
4.20
2k+
🏡 Homesteading Skills🌱 Self-Sufficiency🌄 Back To The Land
Back to Basics Summary
Back to Basics 90%
Build a home, grow your food, power it yourself: illustrated encyclopedia of self-sufficient living.
by Abigail R. Gehring 2007
4.20
2k+ ratings
🏡 Homesteading Skills🌱 Self-Sufficiency🌄 Back To The Land
Meet the Frugalwoods
by Elizabeth Willard Thames • 2018
An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.
3.74
7k+
🏦 Financial Independence💰 Frugal Living🔥 Fire Movement
Meet the Frugalwoods Summary
Meet the Frugalwoods 89%
An 82 percent savings rate: how two professionals quit their jobs and bought a Vermont homestead.
by Elizabeth Willard Thames 2018
3.74
7k+ ratings
🏦 Financial Independence💰 Frugal Living🔥 Fire Movement
How to Disappear and Live Off the Grid
by John Kiriakou • 2022
A CIA officer's tradecraft for erasing your identity and living off the surveillance grid.
3.39
46
🏕️ Off-Grid Living🔒 Digital Privacy👁️ Counter-Surveillance
How to Disappear and Live Off the Grid Summary
How to Disappear and Live Off the Grid 89%
A CIA officer's tradecraft for erasing your identity and living off the surveillance grid.
by John Kiriakou 2022
3.39
46 ratings
🏕️ Off-Grid Living🔒 Digital Privacy👁️ Counter-Surveillance
Solar Power
by Mark Prentice • 2016
Install your own solar panels, slash your bill, and sell the surplus to the utility.
2.50
2
☀️ Solar Energy♻️ Renewable Energy🏡 Off-Grid Living
Solar Power Summary
Solar Power 89%
Install your own solar panels, slash your bill, and sell the surplus to the utility.
by Mark Prentice 2016
2.50
2 ratings
☀️ Solar Energy♻️ Renewable Energy🏡 Off-Grid Living
A Year of Living Simply
by Kate Humble • 2024
Owning less, fixing more, knowing your neighbors: a year of discovering what enough feels like.
3.71
2k+
🌻 Simple Living🌿 Nature Connection🛠 Repair And Reuse
A Year of Living Simply Summary
A Year of Living Simply 89%
Owning less, fixing more, knowing your neighbors: a year of discovering what enough feels like.
by Kate Humble 2024
3.71
2k+ ratings
🌻 Simple Living🌿 Nature Connection🛠 Repair And Reuse
Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead in 9 Days or Less
by Renee Dang • 2022
From roof to tap in nine days: the 7-step plan for harvesting your own clean rainwater.
4.04
26
🚿 Rainwater Harvesting🏡 Off-Grid Living💧 Water Self-Sufficiency
Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead in 9 Days or Less Summary
Harvesting Rainwater for Your Homestead in 9 Days or Less 88%
From roof to tap in nine days: the 7-step plan for harvesting your own clean rainwater.
by Renee Dang 2022
4.04
26 ratings
🚿 Rainwater Harvesting🏡 Off-Grid Living💧 Water Self-Sufficiency
One Man's Wilderness
by Sam Keith • 1973
At fifty-one he walked into the Alaskan wilderness, built a cabin by hand, and began again.
4.37
10k+
🏔️ Wilderness Memoir🔨 Self-Reliance🐻 Animal Encounters
One Man's Wilderness Summary
One Man's Wilderness 88%
At fifty-one he walked into the Alaskan wilderness, built a cabin by hand, and began again.
by Sam Keith 1973
4.37
10k+ ratings
🏔️ Wilderness Memoir🔨 Self-Reliance🐻 Animal Encounters
Solar Power for Sustainable Living
by Sustainable Stevie • 2012
The DIY solar reality check: what your bills, roof, and local code demand before you start.
3.75
4
☀️ Solar Energy♻️ Renewable Energy🔨 Home Improvement
Solar Power for Sustainable Living Summary
Solar Power for Sustainable Living 88%
The DIY solar reality check: what your bills, roof, and local code demand before you start.
by Sustainable Stevie 2012
3.75
4 ratings
☀️ Solar Energy♻️ Renewable Energy🔨 Home Improvement
The Sunset Route
by Carrot Quinn • 2021
A young woman rides freight trains west to escape a broken past, searching for a new kind of family.
4.16
2k+
🚂 Freight Train Culture🏡 Off-Grid Living🎒 Nomadic Lifestyles
The Sunset Route Summary
The Sunset Route 88%
A young woman rides freight trains west to escape a broken past, searching for a new kind of family.
by Carrot Quinn 2021
4.16
2k+ ratings
🚂 Freight Train Culture🏡 Off-Grid Living🎒 Nomadic Lifestyles
Just in Case
by Kathy Harrison • 2008
A stocked pantry, a practiced family plan, and the know-how to thrive when the power fails.
3.85
494
🆘 Emergency Preparedness🏡 Self-Sufficiency🪴 Homesteading Skills
Just in Case Summary
Just in Case 88%
A stocked pantry, a practiced family plan, and the know-how to thrive when the power fails.
by Kathy Harrison 2008
3.85
494 ratings
🆘 Emergency Preparedness🏡 Self-Sufficiency🪴 Homesteading Skills
The Lost Ways
by Claude Davis • 2021
Root cellars, gravity-fed fires, herbal poultices: pioneer skills that need no modern grid.
4.23
155
🏜️ Pioneer Skills🏕️ Wilderness Survival🪓 Self-Reliance Skills
The Lost Ways Summary
The Lost Ways 88%
Root cellars, gravity-fed fires, herbal poultices: pioneer skills that need no modern grid.
by Claude Davis 2021
4.23
155 ratings
🏜️ Pioneer Skills🏕️ Wilderness Survival🪓 Self-Reliance Skills
Solitude
by Michael Harris • 2017
Your phone checks you 150 times a day. Solitude is the lost art: reclaiming your attention.
3.66
2k+
💰 Attention Economy📵 Digital Detox🎨 Solitude And Creativity
Solitude Summary
Solitude 88%
Your phone checks you 150 times a day. Solitude is the lost art: reclaiming your attention.
by Michael Harris 2017
3.66
2k+ ratings
💰 Attention Economy📵 Digital Detox🎨 Solitude And Creativity
Walden on Wheels
by Ken Ilgunas • 2013
He erased $32,000 in debt by living in a campus van on four dollars a day.
4.01
8k+
💰 Student Debt🚐 Van Life🧹 Minimalism
Walden on Wheels Summary
Walden on Wheels 88%
He erased $32,000 in debt by living in a campus van on four dollars a day.
by Ken Ilgunas 2013
4.01
8k+ ratings
💰 Student Debt🚐 Van Life🧹 Minimalism
Voluntary Simplicity
by Duane Elgin • 1981
Less stuff, more meaning: how to live a simpler, sustainable life while the world unravels.
3.62
2k+
🌿 Voluntary Simplicity🛑 Anti-Consumerism🏘️ Intentional Communities
Voluntary Simplicity Summary
Voluntary Simplicity 88%
Less stuff, more meaning: how to live a simpler, sustainable life while the world unravels.
by Duane Elgin 1981
3.62
2k+ ratings
🌿 Voluntary Simplicity🛑 Anti-Consumerism🏘️ Intentional Communities
The One-Straw Revolution
by Masanobu Fukuoka • 1975
A manifesto that argues plowing, weeding, and fertilizing are optional. Thirty years of proof.
4.33
9k+
🌱 Sustainable Agriculture☮️ Zen Philosophy🧱 Soil Health
The One-Straw Revolution Summary
The One-Straw Revolution 88%
A manifesto that argues plowing, weeding, and fertilizing are optional. Thirty years of proof.
by Masanobu Fukuoka 1975
4.33
9k+ ratings
🌱 Sustainable Agriculture☮️ Zen Philosophy🧱 Soil Health
How to Do Nothing
by Jenny Odell • 2019
Your attention is being mined. The most radical response: do nothing.
3.65
57k+
💸 Attention Economy📵 Digital Detox✊ Quiet Resistance
How to Do Nothing Summary
How to Do Nothing 88%
Your attention is being mined. The most radical response: do nothing.
by Jenny Odell 2019
3.65
57k+ ratings
💸 Attention Economy📵 Digital Detox✊ Quiet Resistance
I Don't Want To Grow Up
by Scott Stillman • 2021
The default script is a trap. Here is the escape: simplify, follow instinct, and let adventure lead.
4.08
2k+
🏗️ Lifestyle Design🏡 Simple Living🌟 Childlike Wonder
I Don't Want To Grow Up Summary
I Don't Want To Grow Up 88%
The default script is a trap. Here is the escape: simplify, follow instinct, and let adventure lead.
by Scott Stillman 2021
4.08
2k+ ratings
🏗️ Lifestyle Design🏡 Simple Living🌟 Childlike Wonder
Early Retirement Extreme
by Jacob Lund Fisker • 2010
Retire in five years: save 75% of your income and learn to do absolutely everything yourself.
3.96
4k+
🏦 Financial Independence🧮 Extreme Frugality🌱 Voluntary Simplicity
Early Retirement Extreme Summary
Early Retirement Extreme 88%
Retire in five years: save 75% of your income and learn to do absolutely everything yourself.
by Jacob Lund Fisker 2010
3.96
4k+ ratings
🏦 Financial Independence🧮 Extreme Frugality🌱 Voluntary Simplicity
The Secret School Of Wisdom - The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati
by Josef Wages • 2015
What if working six weeks a year was enough? A two-year experiment in deliberate poverty.
4.12
52
🌿 Transcendentalism🏡 Simple Living🌲 Nature Writing
The Secret School Of Wisdom - The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati Summary
The Secret School Of Wisdom - The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati 87%
What if working six weeks a year was enough? A two-year experiment in deliberate poverty.
by Josef Wages 2015
4.12
52 ratings
🌿 Transcendentalism🏡 Simple Living🌲 Nature Writing
In Emergency, Break Glass
by Nate Anderson • 2022
Nietzsche saw your smartphone coming: the 19th-century antidote to an age of endless scrolling.
3.91
323
🏛️ Applied Philosophy🔧 Technology Critique📱 Attention Economy
In Emergency, Break Glass Summary
In Emergency, Break Glass 87%
Nietzsche saw your smartphone coming: the 19th-century antidote to an age of endless scrolling.
by Nate Anderson 2022
3.91
323 ratings
🏛️ Applied Philosophy🔧 Technology Critique📱 Attention Economy
Reconnaissance Man
by Aaron Clarey • 2016
Skip college, drive the country, and find where you belong before committing your life.
4.18
143
🗺️ Life Design🎓🚫 Anti-College🧭 Geographic Exploration
Reconnaissance Man Summary
Reconnaissance Man 87%
Skip college, drive the country, and find where you belong before committing your life.
by Aaron Clarey 2016
4.18
143 ratings
🗺️ Life Design🎓🚫 Anti-College🧭 Geographic Exploration
Anti-Tech Revolution
by Theodore John Kaczynski • 2016
The technological world system is a self-driving machine no one steers and nothing stops.
3.95
630
🏕️ Anarcho-Primitivism✊ Revolutionary Theory🔄 Systems Thinking
Anti-Tech Revolution Summary
Anti-Tech Revolution 87%
The technological world system is a self-driving machine no one steers and nothing stops.
by Theodore John Kaczynski 2016
3.95
630 ratings
🏕️ Anarcho-Primitivism✊ Revolutionary Theory🔄 Systems Thinking
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
by Harry Browne • 1973
Don't change the government. Change the mental traps that are keeping you in a cage.
4.06
2k+
🗽 Libertarian Philosophy🦅 Radical Individualism🔓 Limiting Beliefs
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World Summary
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World 87%
Don't change the government. Change the mental traps that are keeping you in a cage.
by Harry Browne 1973
4.06
2k+ ratings
🗽 Libertarian Philosophy🦅 Radical Individualism🔓 Limiting Beliefs
Basics of Resistance
by Claire Wolfe • 2018
The tradecraft of fighting back: how civilians resist tyranny, stay anonymous, and build cells.
4.04
67
🪧 Civil Resistance✊ Direct Action🕵️ Tradecraft
Basics of Resistance Summary
Basics of Resistance 87%
The tradecraft of fighting back: how civilians resist tyranny, stay anonymous, and build cells.
by Claire Wolfe 2018
4.04
67 ratings
🪧 Civil Resistance✊ Direct Action🕵️ Tradecraft
No Impact Man
by Colin Beavan • 2009
90 gallons of trash in 4 days: a Manhattan family aims for zero, for a year.
3.78
5k+
🏙️ Urban Sustainability🧪 Lifestyle Experiments🗑️ Waste Reduction
No Impact Man Summary
No Impact Man 87%
90 gallons of trash in 4 days: a Manhattan family aims for zero, for a year.
by Colin Beavan 2009
3.78
5k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Sustainability🧪 Lifestyle Experiments🗑️ Waste Reduction
Walden or, Life in the Woods
by Henry David Thoreau • 1854
He built a cabin for $28 and lived there two years to measure what life requires.
3.77
205k+
🏛️ Transcendentalism🌲 Nature Writing🏡 Simple Living
Walden or, Life in the Woods Summary
Walden or, Life in the Woods 87%
He built a cabin for $28 and lived there two years to measure what life requires.
by Henry David Thoreau 1854
3.77
205k+ ratings
🏛️ Transcendentalism🌲 Nature Writing🏡 Simple Living
The Unsettling of America
by Wendell Berry • 1977
America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.
4.33
7k+
🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy🌍 Land Ethics🚜 Farming Criticism
The Unsettling of America Summary
The Unsettling of America 87%
America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.
by Wendell Berry 1977
4.33
7k+ ratings
🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy🌍 Land Ethics🚜 Farming Criticism
Sara Snow's Fresh Living
by Sara Snow • 2009
Toxins in your toothpaste, chemicals in your crib: a room-by-room detox for the whole house.
3.78
130
🏡 Green Home🧪 Non-Toxic Home👶 Eco-Friendly Parenting
Sara Snow's Fresh Living Summary
Sara Snow's Fresh Living 87%
Toxins in your toothpaste, chemicals in your crib: a room-by-room detox for the whole house.
by Sara Snow 2009
3.78
130 ratings
🏡 Green Home🧪 Non-Toxic Home👶 Eco-Friendly Parenting
Digital Minimalism
by Cal Newport • 2019
A thirty-day reset that uncovers which apps earn your minutes and which steal them.
4.05
97k+
🧹 Digital Detox💰 Attention Economy🎯 Tech Intentionality
Digital Minimalism Summary
Digital Minimalism 87%
A thirty-day reset that uncovers which apps earn your minutes and which steal them.
by Cal Newport 2019
4.05
97k+ ratings
🧹 Digital Detox💰 Attention Economy🎯 Tech Intentionality
The Art of Frugal Hedonism
by Annie Raser-Rowland • 2017
Spend nothing to feel rich: how to live luxuriously on less by retraining your senses.
3.62
7k+
🧮 Frugal Living🌿 Simple Living🚫 Anti-Consumerism
The Art of Frugal Hedonism Summary
The Art of Frugal Hedonism 87%
Spend nothing to feel rich: how to live luxuriously on less by retraining your senses.
by Annie Raser-Rowland 2017
3.62
7k+ ratings
🧮 Frugal Living🌿 Simple Living🚫 Anti-Consumerism
Party of One
by Anneli Rufus • 2003
Your preference for solitude isn't a disorder. Society just needs you to believe it is.
3.71
3k+
🫂 Solitude And Society🔇 Introversion Advocacy🧬 Temperament Psychology
Party of One Summary
Party of One 87%
Your preference for solitude isn't a disorder. Society just needs you to believe it is.
by Anneli Rufus 2003
3.71
3k+ ratings
🫂 Solitude And Society🔇 Introversion Advocacy🧬 Temperament Psychology
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan
by Liesl Clark • 2020
A no-shopping plan that saves money, cuts waste, and turns neighbors into your best resource.
3.44
2k+
🧩 Anti-Consumerism🎁 Gift Economies🤝 Sharing Economy
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan Summary
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan 87%
A no-shopping plan that saves money, cuts waste, and turns neighbors into your best resource.
by Liesl Clark 2020
3.44
2k+ ratings
🧩 Anti-Consumerism🎁 Gift Economies🤝 Sharing Economy
Things I Learned from Falling
by Claire Nelson • 2020
Four days alone, immobile, dying of thirst. The helicopter came. The real rescue took years.
4.06
6k+
🏜️ Survival Memoirs🥾 Solo Hiking🧱 Emotional Isolation
Things I Learned from Falling Summary
Things I Learned from Falling 87%
Four days alone, immobile, dying of thirst. The helicopter came. The real rescue took years.
by Claire Nelson 2020
4.06
6k+ ratings
🏜️ Survival Memoirs🥾 Solo Hiking🧱 Emotional Isolation
Walden Or, Life In The Woods And "On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience"
by Henry David Thoreau • 1849
The modern noise machine drowns out life. Two years in a one-room cabin taught him why.
3.93
39k+
🌿 Transcendentalism🏡 Simple Living🌲 Nature Writing
Walden Or, Life In The Woods And "On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience" Summary
Walden Or, Life In The Woods And "On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience" 87%
The modern noise machine drowns out life. Two years in a one-room cabin taught him why.
by Henry David Thoreau 1849
3.93
39k+ ratings
🌿 Transcendentalism🏡 Simple Living🌲 Nature Writing
A Life in Nature
by Marc Hamer • 2019
A molecatcher's memoir: what a lifetime of killing teaches about nature, loss, and wild belonging.
4.16
2k+
🌿 Nature Memoir🇬🇧 British Countryside🐾 Animal Ethics
A Life in Nature Summary
A Life in Nature 87%
A molecatcher's memoir: what a lifetime of killing teaches about nature, loss, and wild belonging.
by Marc Hamer 2019
4.16
2k+ ratings
🌿 Nature Memoir🇬🇧 British Countryside🐾 Animal Ethics
Zero Waste Home
by Bea Johnson • 2013
A five-step hierarchy that stops waste at the source and cuts household costs by 40%.
3.75
8k+
🚯 Zero Waste Living🏡 Sustainable Home🪴 Minimalism
Zero Waste Home Summary
Zero Waste Home 87%
A five-step hierarchy that stops waste at the source and cuts household costs by 40%.
by Bea Johnson 2013
3.75
8k+ ratings
🚯 Zero Waste Living🏡 Sustainable Home🪴 Minimalism
The Secret Life of You
by Kerri Sackville • 2023
We would rather shock ourselves than think. A practical guide to the lost skill of solitude.
3.44
211
🧘 Solitude Practice🫂 Self-Relationship🗣️ Extrovert Ideal Critique
The Secret Life of You Summary
The Secret Life of You 87%
We would rather shock ourselves than think. A practical guide to the lost skill of solitude.
by Kerri Sackville 2023
3.44
211 ratings
🧘 Solitude Practice🫂 Self-Relationship🗣️ Extrovert Ideal Critique
The Unabomber Manifesto
by Theodore John Kaczynski • 1995
Industrial civilization cannot be saved. Its endpoint is humans rebuilt to fit the machine.
3.85
13k+
📝 Technology Criticism🌿 Anarcho-Primitivism🏭 Anti-Industrialism
The Unabomber Manifesto Summary
The Unabomber Manifesto 87%
Industrial civilization cannot be saved. Its endpoint is humans rebuilt to fit the machine.
by Theodore John Kaczynski 1995
3.85
13k+ ratings
📝 Technology Criticism🌿 Anarcho-Primitivism🏭 Anti-Industrialism
Home Grown
by Ben Hewitt • 2014
Two brothers learn to read by crafting bows and butchering hogs on their family's Vermont farm.
3.95
2k+
🧩 Unschooling🌿 Nature Connection🐢 Slow Parenting
Home Grown Summary
Home Grown 87%
Two brothers learn to read by crafting bows and butchering hogs on their family's Vermont farm.
by Ben Hewitt 2014
3.95
2k+ ratings
🧩 Unschooling🌿 Nature Connection🐢 Slow Parenting
Arctic Homestead
by Norma Cobb • 2000
A blended family claims an Arctic homestead: no road, no laws, and winter closing in.
4.06
2k+
🏡 Homesteading Memoir🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Frontier Family
Arctic Homestead Summary
Arctic Homestead 87%
A blended family claims an Arctic homestead: no road, no laws, and winter closing in.
by Norma Cobb 2000
4.06
2k+ ratings
🏡 Homesteading Memoir🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Frontier Family
An Inconvenient Apocalypse
by Wes Jackson • 2022
Civilization's biological drive for energy makes collapse inevitable. No green tech can stop it.
3.56
198
📉 Limits To Growth🛠️ Techno-Skepticism💰 Ecological Economics
An Inconvenient Apocalypse Summary
An Inconvenient Apocalypse 87%
Civilization's biological drive for energy makes collapse inevitable. No green tech can stop it.
by Wes Jackson 2022
3.56
198 ratings
📉 Limits To Growth🛠️ Techno-Skepticism💰 Ecological Economics
Industrial Society and Its Future
by Ted Kaczynski • 2024
Modern comfort is a trap that erases human purpose. The only escape: abolishing technology.
3.88
203
📜 Anarcho-Primitivism⚙️ Critique Of Technology🌍 Radical Environmentalism
Industrial Society and Its Future Summary
Industrial Society and Its Future 87%
Modern comfort is a trap that erases human purpose. The only escape: abolishing technology.
by Ted Kaczynski 2024
3.88
203 ratings
📜 Anarcho-Primitivism⚙️ Critique Of Technology🌍 Radical Environmentalism
Educated
by Tara Westover • 2018
With no birth certificate or schooling, a survivalist's daughter discovers herself through books.
4.46
1.9M+
🏔️ Survivalist Upbringing🏚️ Off-The-Grid Family💔 Abusive Sibling
Educated Summary
Educated 87%
With no birth certificate or schooling, a survivalist's daughter discovers herself through books.
by Tara Westover 2018
4.46
1.9M+ ratings
🏔️ Survivalist Upbringing🏚️ Off-The-Grid Family💔 Abusive Sibling
Providence
by Daniel Quinn • 1994
A week of uncanny coincidences sets him on a fifty-year search for the story humanity forgot.
3.70
1k+
📖 Spiritual Memoir🌍 Ecological Philosophy🔮 Animism
Providence Summary
Providence 87%
A week of uncanny coincidences sets him on a fifty-year search for the story humanity forgot.
by Daniel Quinn 1994
3.70
1k+ ratings
📖 Spiritual Memoir🌍 Ecological Philosophy🔮 Animism
Coming Into the Country
by John McPhee • 1977
Alaska, 1970s: a pipeline bonanza and the battle over 375 million acres of the last frontier.
4.21
8k+
🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness✍️ Literary Journalism🪓 Bush Life
Coming Into the Country Summary
Coming Into the Country 87%
Alaska, 1970s: a pipeline bonanza and the battle over 375 million acres of the last frontier.
by John McPhee 1977
4.21
8k+ ratings
🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness✍️ Literary Journalism🪓 Bush Life
Sowing Seeds in the Desert
by Masanobu Fukuoka • 2012
Our farms are making deserts. A hands-off method for restoring them with seeds and clay.
4.34
724
🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture🌳 Permaculture Philosophy🌱 Ecological Restoration
Sowing Seeds in the Desert Summary
Sowing Seeds in the Desert 86%
Our farms are making deserts. A hands-off method for restoring them with seeds and clay.
by Masanobu Fukuoka 2012
4.34
724 ratings
🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture🌳 Permaculture Philosophy🌱 Ecological Restoration
Movement Matters
by Katy Bowman • 2016
Movement is biology, not exercise. The true cost of outsourcing it reaches beyond your body.
4.28
850
🧬 Evolutionary Health🪑 Sedentary Culture🌍 Ecological Living
Movement Matters Summary
Movement Matters 86%
Movement is biology, not exercise. The true cost of outsourcing it reaches beyond your body.
by Katy Bowman 2016
4.28
850 ratings
🧬 Evolutionary Health🪑 Sedentary Culture🌍 Ecological Living
Bushcraft 101
by Dave Canterbury • 2014
Five gear categories, a handful of knots, and the fire skills to replace the heavy pack.
4.10
3k+
🏕️ Bushcraft Skills🎒 Minimalist Gear🔥 Fire Craft
Bushcraft 101 Summary
Bushcraft 101 86%
Five gear categories, a handful of knots, and the fire skills to replace the heavy pack.
by Dave Canterbury 2014
4.10
3k+ ratings
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