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- Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Co (Jan 1 1942)
- ASIN: B002YVZRTC
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Good reading,
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This review is from: We Took to the Woods (Paperback)
We Took To the Woods was originally published in 1942. In it author Louise Dickinson Rich describes in fascinating detail her life in the rugged backwoods of North-West Maine with her husband, young son, and their husky dogs. It's a wonderful book for independent, self-sufficient, outdoorsy types.In the book, Louise attempted to answer the questions she most regularly heard from people about their backwoods existence, questions like "How do you make a living," and "What do you do with all your spare time?" She answers these questions honestly and in great detail, and adds in a healthy dose of amusing anecdote. Her writing style is warm, simple, and straightforward, and filled with tongue-in-cheek humour. Louise and her husband, Ralph, lived a highly creative, flexible, self-sufficient lifestyle. They grew a vegetable garden, gathered food like blueberries from the wilderness, and made their living doing a wide variety of odd jobs, including writing. The chapters of this book are filled with stories of this family's interesting adventures, sometimes with animals, sometimes with the weather, and sometimes with other people. Louise sometimes goes off on pretty long tangents when she starts telling stories, and it's all good reading. I really enjoyed reading this book. I love learning the stories of people living on the fringe of civilization, who are making their own way outside of society's conventions. Some of the most memorable parts of the book for me included Louise's stories of giving birth to her son, Rufus, in their cabin without a doctor; the time she cooked lunch for the nearby lumber camp, with her young son tied to a tree where she could see him; and the time she visited a friend on the Outside. It was the first time she had left the woods for four years, and she had to go digging through her closet to find some reasonably suitable clothes, because all she ever wore was pants, and this was in the 30s when women still usually only wore skirts . I would recommend this book to anyone interested in an independent lifestyle, or just anyone who dreams of "getting away from it all" to go live in the woods. Definitely a worthwhile read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb!,
By A Customer
This review is from: We Took to the Woods (Paperback)
Louise Dickinson Rich is a star! A truly wonderful and gifted writer. You can't put her books down.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful, enjoyable and important book,
By Suzanne Amara (MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: We Took to the Woods (Paperback)
This book is one of the most enjoyable to read you will ever find. It is written in such a clear, humorous and timeless style that you would swear it was written yesterday instead of in 1942. Each chapter answers a question that would arise upon hearing that one had decided to live in the deep woods of Maine---how you do school your children? How do you keep in touch with society? How do you keep house? There are pictures and the kind of nitty gritty details we all like to read! In addition to just being great to read, I think this book is a very important one. I would say it had a part in starting at least two trends. One is the back to the land movement. At the time it was written, you just simply didn't decide to get away from it all and live in the woods! I think this book, which was extremely popular when it came out, put some unique ideas in a lot of heads and may have had a big part in giving people ideas about alternative ways of living. Also, I think it's one of the first autobiograpical books of its type---written plainly but with humor about a unique way of living. I think this book, which in my knowledge has never been out of print, is really one of the key non-fiction works of the 20th century. But don't read it for that, read it because it's fun to read and you will love it!
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