The Way Home

Tales from a Life Without Technology

By: Mark Boyle

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

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.

©2019 Mark Boyle (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Man thinks....man does

This was a great listen. Makes you think long and hard about your impact on the world and those around you. How many of us make the difficult choice to LIVE by our ideals like the author does? I suspect that most people only ever THINK of taking action, but Mr. Boyle actually creates a lifestyle around his ideals. The irony of listening to this book while commuting to my corporate job is not lost on me. This book gave me much to ponder and I have been thinking about it since. Highly recommend this book.

meh

I was interested in the premise of this book. I would be lying if I said I didn't long for simpler times without being a slave to technology and social media. Mark Boyle set off to spend one year without modern technology; no power, no internet, no phone, no radio and no clocks. He lived in a log cabin in Ireland like this for over a year.

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This book had excellent reviews and as much as I wanted to enjoy it I  would say it was for the most part it was lackluster experience for me. I will say I learned if you aren't shopping at a grocery store and are a practicing vegan that ideology goes out the window pretty quick when you are forced to live off the land.

Book

This book was interesting. Seems well written. At times confusing back and forth. I did not like the narrators voice. Seems to old for the writer, who is telling his story.

Brilliant

One of those books that you want to dog ear to remember quotes that say what you have always been thinking. Illustrates the struggle of being human and trying not to be either oblivious or naively idealistic. A great listen, that encourages you to continue to think and try to stay connected to what is meaningful in nature and life.

AMAZING

I hope everyone gets the opportunity to be inspired by this title, simple and true to the heart.