In 2006, Dylan Evans set out to answer these questions. He left his job in a high-tech robotics lab, moved to the Scottish Highlands and founded a community called The Utopia Experiment. There, together with an eclectic assortment of volunteers, he tried to live out a scenario of global collapse, free from modern technology and comforts.
Within a year, Evans found himself detained in a psychiatric hospital, shattered and depressed, trying to figure out what had gone wrong. In The Utopia Experiment he tells his own extraordinary story: his frenzied early enthusiasm for this unusual project, the many challenges of post-apocalyptic living, his descent into madness and his gradual recovery. In the process, he learns some hard lessons about himself and about life, and comes to see the modern world he abandoned in a new light.
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Dylan Evans Imprint: Picador Country of Publication: United Kingdom Edition: Main Market Ed. Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 127mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 318g ISBN:9781447261308 ISBN 10: 1447261305 Pages: 256 Publication Date:08 September 2015 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active