Waterlog by Roger Deakin
Reading this book feels like taking a swim yourself.
I love Deakin’s writing style, his freedom of spirit and sense of everyday sensual adventure. Get into the water too, you may just feel inspired to jump in. Since reading this book I now wild swim several times a year.
Read more about Roger Deakin: Obituary.
How to be Free by Tom Hodgkinson
A truly inspiring manifesto of how to make changes in your life.
There is a HUGE reading list at the back too of other inspiring books.
Cannot recommend this book enough, with more than a nod to fantastically resourceful Permaculture movement.
Please buy it from him rather than Amazon!
The Idler website & mag is also worth a browse.
Wild by Jay Griffiths
An absorbing & brilliant seven year journey into the wild.
Soul searching, grounding-a call to action.
Fabulously written.
Soil and Soul by Alistair McIntosh
A community on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides fight against a multi-national company to save their mountain & landscape from destruction. An investigation into humanity & their true meaning of place & community.
The Good Life by Dorian Amos
Dorian Amos & his partner sell up, leave their comfortable lives in Cornwall & leave for Canada’s Yukon territory, for bears, -40c, woods & each other. Their spirit of adventure is awe inspiring. I have given this book as a gift to many people. My sister described reading it as ‘a gift’.
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert‘s search for herself.
Now a Hollywood movie, don’t let that put you off-if you’re a woman in search of your ‘centre’, if you are interested in meditation, try this book.
Listen to her speaking at a conference in 2011.
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
An expedition into the Himalayas & one man’s story of his own journey into his own sense of Being. Quite dense in descriptions at time, that can be a little waring, but the imagery of the mountains & his own sense of self & humanity are quite beautiful.
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