1. 31 January 2007

    The Earth Manual

    Malcolm Margolin

    709 days ago

    How to work with nature to preserve, restore, and enjoy wild land – without taming it.

    I got this book with a different thing in mind, thinking it would be about growing/harvesting on a smaller scale. It’s more maintenance, preventing erosion, trimming trees in a natural way. Good nonetheless. My family has a little cabin on a nice big parcel in central minnesota, I’ve always wanted to try my hand living up there for a time: this makes it seem all the more worthwhile.

  2. 01 June 2005

    Allen & Mike's Really Cool Backpackin' Book

    Allen O'Bannon & Mike Clelland

    1318 days ago

    A delightful and quick primer on backpacking. Easy to read with lots of drawings and good advice. I’ve always wanted to take a backpacking trip, and now I might just know how to go about it.

  3. 11 April 2005

    Ordinary Wolves

    Seth Kantner

    1368 days ago

    Absolutely stunning novel about a white boy raised as an eskimo: hunting, fishing, and living off the land and not much else. His struggles to fit in both in the Eskimo town a days sled from his home and later in ‘white’ alaskan cities show that the only place he really fits is out on the tundra – living by his own hands.

  4. 22 March 2005

    1388 days ago

    Analysis and Notes on Walden -- Henry Thoreau's Text with Adjacent Thoreauvian Commentary

    I was just going to bunch this into the last link – but it deserves its own. A great look at Walden, easily my favorite book, with all the juicy quotes and analysis and paralells from Ken’s own life, I haven’t read it all yet but sure intend to.

    via Kjell Olsen1388 days ago

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