The way of the hermit My incredible 40 years living in the wilderness
Book - 2024
Ken Smith has spent the past four decades in the Scottish Highlands. He lives alone, with no electricity or running water. His home is a log cabin nestled near Loch Treig, known as 'the lonely loch', where he lives off the land: he fishes for his supper, chops his own wood, and even brews his own tipple. He is, in the truest sense of the word, a hermit. For the first time, Ken shares the story of his life. From his working-class origins in Derbyshire, to the formative years he spent travelling in the Yukon and finally how he came to be the Hermit of Loch Treig. Looking back through decades of diary entries, Ken reflects upon the reasons he turned his back on society, the vulnerability of old age and the awe and wonder of a life li...ved in nature.
Location | Call Number | Status | |
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2nd Floor New Shelf | BIOGRAPHY/Smith, Ken | (NEW SHELF) | Due Sep 3, 2024 |
2nd Floor New Shelf | BIOGRAPHY/Smith, Ken | (NEW SHELF) | Due Sep 10, 2024 |
- Subjects
- Genres
- Autobiographies
- Published
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Toronto, Ontario :
Hanover Square Press
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- First published in 2023 by Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan.
- Physical Description
- 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781335454966
- Prologue: The Hermit Within
- Part 1. Where It All Began (and Then Began Again)
- Derbyshire Boy
- Coming Up for Scottish Air
- Born Again
- Part 2. The Wilderness Days
- Canada, the Great White North
- Grim and Grizzly
- Alone in the Wild
- Part 3. Tramping About
- The Poltergeist of Ben Alder
- This Is the Place
- Painful Patience
- Part 4. Hermit Days and Ways
- Going Off-Grid
- Gold in the Mountain
- Everything Is Gone
- Put Your Faith in Wood
- In Sunshine and Shadow
- My Wild Neighbors and Me
- Brown Gold and Wild Brews
- Catch It. Cook It
- By Foot and by Thumb
- Lost Souls
- Royal Tea
- Part 5. Go Now
- Stagger On
- Live to 102
- Acknowledgments