num_pages: 275
description: Imagine you have survived an apocalypse. Civilization as you knew it is no more. What will life be like and how will you cope?In 2006 Dylan Evans set out to answer these questions. He left his job in a high-tech robotics lab moved to the Scottish Highlands and founded a community called The Utopia Experiment. There together with an eclectic assortment of volunteers he tried to live out a scenario of global collapse free from modern technology and comforts.Within a year Evans found himself detained in a psychiatric hospital shattered and depressed trying to figure out what had gone wrong. In The Utopia Experiment he tells his own extraordinary story: his frenzied early enthusiasm for this unusual project the many challenges of post-apocalyptic living his descent into madness and his gradual recovery. In the process he learns some hard lessons about himself and about life and comes to see the modern world he abandoned in a new light.
language: English
title: The Utopia Experiment
publisher: Picador