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A Place In The Woods

Helen Hoover

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.21 | 507 Users | 64 Reviews

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Original Title:	A Place in the Woods
ISBN:	0816631298 (ISBN13: 9780816631292)
Edition Language:	English

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Helen Hoover and her husband, Adrian, were trailblazers in the American back-to-the-land movement. Well ensconced in their professional lives in Chicago, they made the decision to follow their dream of a simple existence, pulling up their stakes and plunging into the wilds of northern Minnesota.
A Place in the Woods, first published in 1969, describes how the Hoovers gradually adapted to the rigors of wilderness survival, relating events that occurred prior to those Helen Hoover described in her bestselling The Girl of the Deer. This is a tale of starting out, of the pitfalls of beginning a new life -- one punctuated by near disasters but also by moments of rare beauty.

A Place in the Woods is enlivened by warm, humorous anecdotes showing both the struggle and reward involved in joining this small community of rabbits, deer, and distant neighbors. This volume, now available in paperback for the first time, conveys the special joy of each small victory in the wilderness.

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Title	:	A Place In The Woods
Author	:	Helen Hoover
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1999 by Univ Of Minnesota Press (first published May 12th 1969)
Categories	:	Environment. Nature. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Biography Memoir

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Ratings: 4.21 From 507 Users | 64 Reviews

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I didn't expect to enjoy this book as much as I did, but it was wonderfully refreshing. It doesn't pretend to be philosophical but there are some profound insights into Man's relationship with the natural world. It almost made me want to move to the Big Woods somewhere.

Weird rating for this one: To non-nature readers, this would be a 2. For fans of nature writing, this would be a 4. For you die-hard nature freaks, it'd be a 5. ;-)This book is not destined to be a widespread classic, but it is a good upper-midwest nature literature fan's must-read. Ms. Hoover and her husband wanted a place in the woods, and bought a cabin that they spent the coming years upgrading and falling more and more in love with. Well, more the location than the cabin itself. They found

Weird rating for this one: To non-nature readers, this would be a 2. For fans of nature writing, this would be a 4. For you die-hard nature freaks, it'd be a 5. ;-)This book is not destined to be a widespread classic, but it is a good upper-midwest nature literature fan's must-read. Ms. Hoover and her husband wanted a place in the woods, and bought a cabin that they spent the coming years upgrading and falling more and more in love with. Well, more the location than the cabin itself. They found

This is the kind of book I love--a real couple, Helen and Ade, who are looking for something--a cabin in the woods. They found just the place: a rustic cabin with lots of problems: a bear tried to get in the trap door, they had to carry up water from Lake Superior, there was no full size bed. Oh well, it was perfect for them and they bought it. I just loved all the details and how they found ways to survive in the wilderness.

There are many books written by people who decide to pursue a lifestyle closer to nature, but rarely has there ever been a couple so inept as author Helen Hoover and her husband Adrian. They gave up their jobs in the city of Chicago, and purchased a cabin in northern Minnesota in 1954, without being aware that they needed a source of heat during the winter. I kid you not. Nevertheless, she is honest about their failings, and writes very entertainingly. The couple resided in the back woods for 16

Great book that describes the best parts of winter in the North woods.

I'm doing that thing I do where I read two or three books at a time. Never ends well. I need discipline...* I finished this book a week or so ago. I loved it. The author tells the the true story of her first year living off the grid with her husband in northern Minnesota, after a somewhat rash decision to quit their jobs and just do it. It was awesome. What an experience. And, that fact that this all happened in the fifties was even more amazing. I hope to live that dream someday...