| | Amazon.com: Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s and Why They Came Back: Books: Eleanor ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | In chapters that follow homesteaders to the farms and then back to civilization, Agnew offers a balanced, critical view that conveys both the profound rewards as well as the stresses that the "simple life" brought: the back-breaking work, the nearly universal poverty, the painful naivete, and the broken marriages, including Agnew's own. |
 | | It is a quick read, mainly stories of the experiences of the author and her friends who were lured to live "the simple life" "off the grid" in the country. |
 | | Back from the Land : How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back details these visionaries and their movements, using the experiences of a woman who lived her subject and interviewed others in the process. |
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