Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods

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After a long absence from his native southern Appalachians, Thomas Rain Crowe returned to live by myself deep within the North Carolina woods. That is Crowe’s chronicle of that time when, for four years, he survived by his own hand without electricity, plumbing, brand new-day transportation, or regular source of revenue. This can be a Walden for as of late, paced to nature’s rhythms and cycles and filled with a wisdom one gains only through the pursuit of a consciously simple, spiritual, environmentally responsible life.

Crowe made his home in a small cabin he had helped to build years before―at a restless age when he could not have imagined that the place would at some point call him back. The cabin sat on what was once once the farm of an old mountain man named Zoro Guice. As we absorb Crowe’s sharp observations on southern Appalachian natural history, we also come to know Zoro and the other singular folk who showed Crowe the mountain ways that would see him through those four years.

Crowe writes of many things: digging a root cellar, being a good listener, gathering wood, living within the moment, tending a mountain garden. He explores profound questions on wilderness, self-sufficiency, urban growth, and ecological overload. Yet we are never burdened by their weight but moderately enriched by his thoughtfulness and delighted by his storytelling.

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