Nick Weston's 6 month experiment was filmed by Channel 4 and he has since turned his experience into a book, which I plan to read very soon!!
'It's a dream many of us have cherished at one time or another - the primitive desire to escape to a simple, idealistic existence, living off the land - where Mother Nature, rather than Tesco, satisfies our stomachs.
Daydreams and adventure novels aside, most of us would never contemplate doing what author Nick Weston, a latter-day Robinson Crusoe, actually did - building and living in a treehouse in the woods of southern England, foraging for food, in a six-month experiment to see if it was possible to live as a 21stcentury hunter-gatherer.
Nick, 28, who appeared in Channel 4's Shipwrecked and is a self-styled survivalist, found himself short of work, thanks to the credit crunch, but chose to turn the situation to his advantage by seeking to fulfil a boyhood dream of living self-sufficiently in a treehouse he'd built himself near Haywards Heath, West Sussex'. (Daily Mail Online, April 2010)
This simple way of living is very telling of the ways in which we seem to seek purity and nostalgia in an uncertain economic climate. The simplicity of the tree house dwelling is natural and harks back to days when self sufficiency was key.
.Anna.
Daydreams and adventure novels aside, most of us would never contemplate doing what author Nick Weston, a latter-day Robinson Crusoe, actually did - building and living in a treehouse in the woods of southern England, foraging for food, in a six-month experiment to see if it was possible to live as a 21stcentury hunter-gatherer.
Nick, 28, who appeared in Channel 4's Shipwrecked and is a self-styled survivalist, found himself short of work, thanks to the credit crunch, but chose to turn the situation to his advantage by seeking to fulfil a boyhood dream of living self-sufficiently in a treehouse he'd built himself near Haywards Heath, West Sussex'. (Daily Mail Online, April 2010)
This simple way of living is very telling of the ways in which we seem to seek purity and nostalgia in an uncertain economic climate. The simplicity of the tree house dwelling is natural and harks back to days when self sufficiency was key.
.Anna.
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