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Summary: Wilderness life, family style
Review: There are lots of books advocating a low-tech life in touch with nature; books with hilarious tales of everyday life (a la Dave Berry); books about hiking with your kids; and books about individuals finding a "sense of place" where they live. This book brings them all together, and more. How does one live a "wilder life" that doesn't mean drinking all night or constantly bagging 14,000 peaks (but sometimes does ;))? By following Wright's trevails. Often life is presented as making choices between having fun, having a family, getting outside alot, holding on to your "childish" ways and dreams, and making a living. This book helps you find your way to all these things. It does mean making your living, living, at the expense of amassing large material gains, but with probably enough to do what you actually want to do. If this is all the book did, it would still probably fail however. But it is not a philisophical treatise. Far from it, the book's ideas are carried by Wright's stingingly funny stories of a "wilder life." One recounts a rafting trip with his toddler in a portable crib strapped to the raft (no need to call Child Services- it was flat water). One of my favorites is about "drinking and driving"- that's not driving drunk, but rather winding down a backcountry jeep road sipping on a cold malted beverage and taking in all life has to offer. I don't write funny, so you'll have to take my word for it. If you like the ideas, geographic location, and writing style of Edward Abbey (who appears to be a major spirit guide for Wright), you will like this book.
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