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[2015]
Physical Desc
474 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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The author of this book is the French actor, filmmaker, poet, and songwriter Alain Saury who won the Grand Prix du Disque Award in 1963. Back to the Wild contains Saury's life goal of instructing the human animal of how to survive any rapacious disaster to the modern world, and learn how to coexist with the earth once again.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 315 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Rawles details the tools needed to survive anything from a short-term disruption to a long-term, grid-down scenario. Field-tested and comprehensive, Tools for Survival is certain to become a must-have reference for the burgeoning survivalist/prepper movement"--
Pub. Date
©2015
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2 videodiscs (264 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Decades ago, Mick Dodge walked away from the modern world leaving civilization behind to live alongside nature's wonders in the Olympic Peninsula. Following a primal instinct present throughout generations of his family, Mick ventured deep into the Hoh Rainforest making his home in the trees and hidden in the moss. Experience the wild life of Mick Dodge, a quirky character whose unique brand of zen comes from living by his own code--off the land and...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look at the life of legendary Malibu surfer Dorian 'Doc' Paskowitz, a successful doctor who dropped out of normal society in the '60s and raised nine kids in a motor home, where he home-schooled them about life, love, sex, and surfing.
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Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (ca. 6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Former Vice President Al Gore, an expert on global warming phenomenon, presents an eye-opening expose on the ongoing climate crisis. Explaining the importance of a swift, resolute, and united response to global warming, Gore presents a variety of plans to negate halt the climate's drastic changes.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life through the stories of three families of new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for--or create--a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.--
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"After an abusive, neglected childhood spent on welfare and in and out of homelessness in Alaska, raised by a mother who believed she was the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. She found a sense of belonging with a bunch of straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and find her food by foraging in dumpsters. Her new life was one of thrilling...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xviii, 296 pages ; 21 cm
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"In this frank and witty memoir, Ken Ilgunas lays bare the existential terror of graduating from the University of Buffalo with $32,000 of student debt. Ilgunas set himself an ambitious mission: get out of debt as quickly as possible. Inspired by the frugality and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, Ilgunas undertook a 3-year transcontinental journey, working in Alaska as a tour guide, garbage picker, and night cook to pay off his student loans before...
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