Tom Fort

Roadkill & Camomile for Tea

The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology

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 I suppose the obvious next step for someone who has already written a book about how he gave up money for three years is to repudiate the technological advances of the modern world and write a book about living by candlelight and without running water. By conventional standards these are singular, not to say bizarre, choices, but good luck to Mark Boyle if they bring him contentment and enable him to write as eloquently and memorably as he does.

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