See You in a Hundred Years by Logan Ward
'The basic premise is this: If it didn't exist in 1900, we will do without.' "See You in a Hundred Years" is the story of one family's year in a farmhouse in Swoope, Virginia, living as if it were 1900 and trying to simplify their lives. Years of working long hours surrounded by technology, stress and danger had taken their toll on Logan Ward and his wife Heather, and to save their marriage and their sanity, Logan and Heather sold their belongings, packed up their 2-year-old son and moved to a run-down farmhouse in the country without any plans past surviving the year. Adventure travel writer Logan Ward chronicles their year in 1900 - what the move solved and what it didn't, what they lost and what they gained. As they struggle with recalcitrant livestock and garden - destroying bugs, rain that won't come and their own insecurities, they discover a sense of community and a sense of themselves that changes not only their marriage, but the entire Swoope, Virginia, community. Lyrically told and powerfully evocative, "See You in a Hundred Years" is a memoir for our modern age that struggles with today's growing sense of disassociation and yearning to escape the frenetic pace of daily life. It's a different kind of travel narrative, detailing not the dislocation of place, but time, and taking the reader to what may be the most lost world of all-our own past.
Logan Ward has written for many magazines, including National Geographic Adventure, Men's Journal, Popular Mechanics, Southern Accents, and Cottage Living. He lives with his wife, Heather, and their children, Luther and Eliot, and is hard at work on his next book to be published by Riverhead Books, a division of the Penguin Group, USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781933771151 |
| ISBN 10 | 1933771151 |
| Title | See You in a Hundred Years |
| Author | Logan Ward |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | BenBella Books |
| Year published | 2007-05-11 |
| Number of pages | 245 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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