Home > Books >

At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America - Rebecca Kneale Gould
At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America - Rebecca Kneale Gould
 
Our Price: $34.95


Product Code: 0520241428

 
Motivated by the desire variously to reject consumerism, to live closer to the earth, to embrace voluntary simplicity, or to discover a more spiritual path, homesteaders have made the radical decision to go "back to the land," rejecting modern culture and amenities to live self-sufficiently and in harmony with nature. Drawing from vivid firsthand accounts and from rich historical material, this study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present examines the lives and beliefs of those who have ascribed to the homesteading philosophy, placing their experiences within the broader context of the changing meanings of nature and religion in modern American culture.
University of California Press, 2005. Paperback, 350 pp.

Share your knowledge of this product with other customers... Be the first to write a review

Browse for more products in the same category as this item:

Books
Books > Inspired By Thoreau


Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England - Tom Wessels $24.99
Walden Inspired Blank Journal $17.99
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives - Robert D. Richardson, Megan Marshall $16.95
"It Is a Great Art to Saunter" Hand-Painted Wood Shelf Sitter - Williams $29.00
Hiking the SuAsCo Watershed: Exploring the Woods and Waters of the Sudbury, Assabet and Concord Rivers - Jill Phelps Kern $15.95
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer $22.00
The Active Soul: Emerson and Thoreau on Reform and Civil Disobedience - edited by William Homestead (SIGNED) $20.00
Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit - Rumi, Maryam Mafi, Azima Melita Kolin, Narguess Farzad $14.95
Erosion: Essays of Undoing - Terry Tempest Williams $20.00