At Home in the Woods

Living the Life of Thoreau Today

Bradford Angier, Elvena Angier

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Down East Books,U.S.
15 July 2015

Memoirs; Self-sufficiency; The countryside, country life; Outdoor survival skills

One hundred years ago, Henry Thoreau wrote of the charms and joys of simple living in the woods, away from the hectic nuisances of our city civilization. His philosophy has become part of our American heritage, as sound today as the day he first set it down. But his advice on the simple life has seemed too rugged for later generations, brought up in cities, pampered with conveniences and scared of nature. Vena and Brad Angier were fed up with their city bound existence and longtime readers and admirers of Thoreau, they set out to see if his discoveries were valid today.

This is the account of two wilderness-loving tenderfeet, who headed for the tall timber on the banks of the Peace River, British Columbia. There near the trading post of Hudson Hope they found their Walden. How they made themselves ‘At Home in the Woods,’ stocked their cabin, met their interesting wilderness neighbors who helped them get settled and who saw them through their first winter makes honest and exciting reading. The city-bred Angiers found out that Thoreau was right when he wrote: “What people say you can not do, you try and find you can.”

By: Bradford Angier, Elvena Angier
Imprint: Down East Books,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 207mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 345g
ISBN: 9781608934423
ISBN 10: 160893442X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 July 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Adventuring on Life 2. The Bride Goes North 3. End of the Steel 4. Family in the Forest 5. How SIlent the North? 6. A Home for the Building 7. The Latch String 8. River Canyon 9. The White Wind 10. The Farther Places 11. What is Cold? 12. Chinook 13. Hudson's Bay Company 14. Aren't You Lonely 15. Mail Days 16. Is it Really Overrated? 17. Food for the Finding 18. Bear with Golden Paws 19. Living Off the Country 20. The Mountain Lake 21. Backwoods Wife 22. Day at Midnight 23. Peril in the Pines 24. A River Cruise 25. Meat for the Hunting 26. Are Men the Best Cooks? 27. The River Stills 28. Subarctic Christmas 29. Rocky Mountain Canyon 30. Alaska Highway 31. Return to Nature

Bradford Angier was a journalist and wilderness survivalist who wrote several best-selling books on nature, survival, and living off the land including Wilderness Wife and How to Stay Alive in the Woods:A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere. Vena Angier was a dance director and amateur naturalist who contributed both writing and illustrations to several of her husband’s books.

Reviews for At Home in the Woods: Living the Life of Thoreau Today

Their adventures are varied and fascinating. Their book reveals that others may live this life if they snap the cord that binds civilization.-- The Christian Science Monitor