Rewild Your Life - Hardcover

Sarah Stirling

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784883972 ISBN 13: 9781784883973

Publisher: Hardie Grant (UK), 2021

Synopsis

Over-attached to technology and cosseted in our homes, the Western world has never been so disconnected from nature.

Rewild Your Life is here to help you tune up your innate connection to the great outdoors. Through 52 seasonal indoor and outdoor projects, adventure writer and wild swimming enthusiast Sarah Stirling shows you how connecting more deeply with the natural world is key to keeping the environment alive, while simultaneously bringing the joy and wonder back into every day.

Projects range from spoon carving to foraging in the hedgerows, making and mending to natural navigation and growing vegetables. You can follow these projects week by week for a year, or flick through the book to find ideas you'd like to try – many are achievable all year round.

Whether you're an outdoor expert or a novice, eight years old or eighty, there's plenty in here for you.

About this title

About the Author

Sarah Stirling has been an outdoor storyteller for 15 years, and is an acclaimed magazine writer and editor in her field. Previously the Editor of The Outdoor Adventure Guide, she is currently Assistant Editor of the UK's most widely read outdoor magazine, Summit, and contributes to Lonely Planet, the Observer and the Telegraph, among others.

From the Back Cover

Do you sometimes feel that your life is missing something simple yet fundamental? Would you love to reconnect more with the natural world, get in on the theatre of wildlife and seasons going on outside your window? Do you struggle to find the time to start? You're not alone. Over-attached to technology, cosseted in our homes, the Western world has never been so disconnected. However, increasingly, we are realizing that our relationship with nature is the most important thing in our lives, and that it is at stake.

Rewild Your Life will help you to rediscover your instinctive connection to the great outdoors, both in your own gardens and further afield. With 52 projects from bushcraft to generations old craftery, journalist and wild swimming enthusiast Sarah Stirling will show you how reconnecting with the natural world is key to keeping the environment alive, while simultaneously bringing the wonder back into the every day. Becoming more in tune with the environment does not require a lot of time, energy or money and with projects include spoon carving to foraging in the hedgerows, making and mending to forest bathing – this book will help you to focus on the many small ways you can retune your innate human senses that have become blunted by modern life, and really reconnect. Perfect for anyone who wants to get closer to the nature that's all around them, Rewild Your Life will give you an appreciation for nature's seasonal changes as well as improve your overall happiness and wellbeing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hardie Grant (UK)
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784883972
• ISBN 13: 9781784883973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176