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Softcover book has minor shelfwear, with intact spine and a notations on the flyleaf.

When urban life was becoming oppressive early in 1932, educators Helen and Scott Nearing moved to Vermont to farm, to live healthfully, to build with stone, heat with wood, to read and to write. After 15 years, they moved to Harborside, Maine, with their adaptive skills to begin again with another stone house. They were already well beyond "retirement age" at 95 and near 80. This account is of their Maine continuing experiment in alternative lifestyles.

NY: Schocken Books. VG in VG DJ. (1979). 2nd ptg. The great-grandparents of the back-to-the-land movement, the Nearings abandoned the city in 1932 for a rural life.... . DJ price clipped & fading toward edges. .

New York: Schoken Books, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Schoken Books, 1979. Stated First Edition . Fine/Fine. Stated First Edition (and first printing with full number line) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with 18 photographs. 194 pages with index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The Nearings began their story and message of an alternative life style in the book "Living the Good Life". Here they continue their story with practical knowledge of 50 years of experience. This book covers the 25 years since 1952, during which time they have been homesteading in Maine. Here are the details of growing and storing one's own food, of retoring the soil by the… Read More

1979. Schocken Books. 8vo. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Fine in fine DJ. Signed by the author Helen Nearing: "Helen and Scott Nearing"