Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid & Beyond the American Dream

Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or...
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Author: William Powers
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Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid & Beyond the American Dream by Powers, William

Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid & Beyond the American Dream

BD$25.45

Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid & Beyond the American Dream

BD$25.45
Author: William Powers
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Why would a successful American physician choose to live in a twelve-foot-by-twelve-foot cabin without running water or electricity? To find out, writer and activist William Powers visited Dr. Jackie Benton in rural North Carolina. No Name Creek gurgled through Benton's permaculture farm, and she stroked honeybees' wings as she shared her wildcrafter philosophy of living on a planet in crisis. Powers, just back from a decade of international aid work, then accepted Benton's offer to stay at the cabin for a season while she traveled. There, he befriended her eclectic neighbors -- organic farmers, biofuel brewers, eco-developers -- and discovered a sustainable but imperiled way of life.

In these pages, Powers not only explores this small patch of community but draws on his international experiences with other pockets of resistance. This engrossing tale of Powers's struggle for a meaningful life with a smaller footprint proposes a paradigm shift to an elusive "Soft World" with clues to personal happiness and global healing.

Author: William Powers
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 05/04/2010
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781577318972


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/22/2010 pg. 64
Booklist 04/15/2010 pg. 10
Library Journal 05/15/2010 pg. 93
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2010 pg. 81
Foreword 04/16/2010
BookPage 05/01/2010

About the Author
For over a decade William Powers has led development aid and conservation initiatives in Latin America, Africa, and Washington, DC. He is the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs about his time in Africa and South America, Blue Clay People and Whispering in the Giant's Ear. His writings on global issues have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Slate, and the Sun. A popular speaker and senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, he lives part-time in New York City.

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