A Year In The Maine Woods

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Description

Escapist fantasies on a regular basis involve the open road, but Bernd Heinrich’s dream used to be to concentrate on the riches of one small place—a couple of green acres along Alder Brook just east of the Presidential Mountains. The year begins as he settles into a cabin without a running water and no electricity, built of hand-cut logs he dragged out of the woods with a team of oxen. There, by myself aside from for his pet raven, Jack, he rediscovers the meaning of peace and quiet and harmony with nature—of days spent not filling out forms, but tracking deer, or being attentive to the sound of a moth’s wings.Right through this year when “the delicate matters and the spectacular distracts,” Heinrich brings us back to the drama in small things, when life is lived consciously. His story is that of a man rediscovering what it means to be alive.

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