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To the Woods: Sinking Roots, Living Lightly, and Finding True Home
Evelyn Searle Hess
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Description for To the Woods: Sinking Roots, Living Lightly, and Finding True Home
Paperback. The true story of a couple who, in their late fifties, traded modern conveniences for life in a tent and trailer without electricity or indoor plumbing. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 263.
To the Woods is a tale of adventure, inspiration, and living life in concert with nature. It is the true story of Evelyn Searle Hess, who, in her late fifties, walks away from the world of modern conveniences to build a new life with her husband on twenty acres of wild land in the foothills of Oregon's Coast Range.
To the Woods tracks the natural history of place through the seasons. It describes Hess's day-to-day challenges, from living in a trailer without electricity or indoor plumbing to excavating a pond to dealing with health crises. It explores the joys ... Read more
To the Woods is a tale of adventure, inspiration, and living life in concert with nature. It is the true story of Evelyn Searle Hess, who, in her late fifties, walks away from the world of modern conveniences to build a new life with her husband on twenty acres of wild land in the foothills of Oregon's Coast Range.
To the Woods tracks the natural history of place through the seasons. It describes Hess's day-to-day challenges, from living in a trailer without electricity or indoor plumbing to excavating a pond to dealing with health crises. It explores the joys ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Corvallis, OR, United States
ISBN
9780870715815
SKU
V9780870715815
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Evelyn Searle Hess
Evelyn Searle Hess lives in the foothills of southern Oregon’s Coast Range. At various times a teacher, greenhouse manager, gardener, garden designer, and a native-plant nursery owner, along with being a mother, grandmother, and now great grandmother, she currently weeds, writes, and tries to put up her garden produce before the critters get it. In spare moments she helps husband ... Read more
Reviews for To the Woods: Sinking Roots, Living Lightly, and Finding True Home
“[Hess’s] wry glances at the human spirit and the complex ways of humans and other animals make To the Woods another in OSU [Press’s] astounding list of strong, quirky works by local voices.”—Eugene Weekly "Evelyn Hess's enterprise, it seems to me, is one of Thoreauvian simplicity. She and her husband, at considerable age, with humility and pluck, lived many ... Read more