The Wild Life
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £0.25
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in The Wild Life: A Year of Living on Wild Food for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.25, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
This is a great book: tough and funny, metaphysical and earthy, passionate and honest...There's also some beautiful writing about place.
--Robert Macfarlane, author
Often funny, always passionate, this is a fascinating read.
--BBC Country File
--Robert Macfarlane, author
Often funny, always passionate, this is a fascinating read.
--BBC Country File
Review
A meditation on survival and our connection to the land...A timely and compelling book.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
One of the great books of my life.
It reads more like a journal(no pictures)than a book.
JL-S really portrays the life of the hunter gatherer.
You feel the highs, lows and hunger of the experience. Really makes you appreciate the variety of food we have. Also makes you appreciate the importance of the preserves and natural flavourings - the food is natural and free range, but repetitive for each season, hence the need for something to add variety to the meals.
It also highlights the dilemma of the true hunter - no pleasure, quite the opposite in fact, in taking a life - but no kill = no food. At the same time, the creatures have a free life and good chance of escape which no farmed food does, but does this off-set the killing?
The book also potrays how the hunter becomes increasingly aware of his surroundings, more in tune with his world and how all the senses become sharper - and always on the look out for food opportunities.
Fascinating to read slowly, with the seasons, too!
The book was not what I expected, but was far far better and a really inspiring book if hunting, gathering and natural living is your thing. One of the best books I've read.
It reads more like a journal(no pictures)than a book.
JL-S really portrays the life of the hunter gatherer.
You feel the highs, lows and hunger of the experience. Really makes you appreciate the variety of food we have. Also makes you appreciate the importance of the preserves and natural flavourings - the food is natural and free range, but repetitive for each season, hence the need for something to add variety to the meals.
It also highlights the dilemma of the true hunter - no pleasure, quite the opposite in fact, in taking a life - but no kill = no food. At the same time, the creatures have a free life and good chance of escape which no farmed food does, but does this off-set the killing?
The book also potrays how the hunter becomes increasingly aware of his surroundings, more in tune with his world and how all the senses become sharper - and always on the look out for food opportunities.
Fascinating to read slowly, with the seasons, too!
The book was not what I expected, but was far far better and a really inspiring book if hunting, gathering and natural living is your thing. One of the best books I've read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I think that this is one of the few wild food books that understands that foraging is about more than filling your plate, it is about building a relationship with nature, it is about mental as well as physical health.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I really enjoyed reading this book. Not only does John have a good sense of humour, I really followed him through his trials and tribulations for gathering, preparing, cooking and eating his food.
This book really gives you a good idea of how difficult it is to live off the land entirely. It also inspired me to eat more wild food. There aren't any photos or pictures of the food that he found but this book is not about that. It is a no-nonsense guide of the sort of things that you have to do to feed yourself for a year just on the fields around you. There are some really good recipes in it too.
I would definitely recommend this book to someone who thinks that they could live off the land entirely. It is a good read whilst being informative. I really enjoyed it.
This book really gives you a good idea of how difficult it is to live off the land entirely. It also inspired me to eat more wild food. There aren't any photos or pictures of the food that he found but this book is not about that. It is a no-nonsense guide of the sort of things that you have to do to feed yourself for a year just on the fields around you. There are some really good recipes in it too.
I would definitely recommend this book to someone who thinks that they could live off the land entirely. It is a good read whilst being informative. I really enjoyed it.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
great diet if you can shoot!
Very enjoyable read. Did not try to preach about sustainability or come from the "green angle". Well researched. Honest and at times, both funny and sad. Read more
Published 7 months ago by kate
What a fantastic read!
After Amazon sent me a "Things you may like" email I chose this book. I wasn't disappointed. At first it seemed to be just another getting back to nature type of book. Read more
Published 8 months ago by @BushcraftChris
A very odd method
Some of the book is ok & i can see where he has tried to go with it but here is a man who lives on a 40 acre smallholding with his own livestock & he wants to live off the land. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Welsh boy70
Superbly written. I felt his pain.
The author moves to an ancient, decrepit house where he hopes to be self-sufficient. His problems start with the passive resistance of the local craftsmen hired to assist the... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Cuivienna
Good guide to self-sufficiency...
... If you have the time, the patience, and no cravings for a Big Mac. This Is however great book, humorous, well-written and real. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Zayja
Thoroughly enjoyable
I have read many good books but have never been inspired to bother leaving a review.
This is a very enjoyable book. Read more
This is a very enjoyable book. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Magnum PI
A bit slow
I have read a large number of books relating peoples tales of giving it all up to live in the country and as with quite a few, the author must not be short of a bob or two going by... Read more
Published 23 months ago by MR DEREK JARRETT
Every forager should read this
I take people on wild food walks, introducing them to the plants around them and letting them know their culinary uses. Read more
Published on 19 May 2010 by Mr. Andrew R. Hamilton
The wild life: a year of living on wild food
I really enjoyed reading the book. It made connections with values and aspirations I have had for most of my life. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2010 by Mrs. L. A. S. Cook
Inspirational and Elegaic
This is a brlliant book; a vision of the British countryside that we have lost and how to live in it and off it. Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2010 by Patrick Clare
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
