Cabin fever
Subtitle: a suburban father's search for the wild
By: Tom Montgomery Fate
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780807000960
Subjects: Environmentalism; Conservation of natural resources; Self-reliant living; Alternative lifestyles; Green movement; Sustainable living
Other titles: Suburban father's search for the wild
Description: "A modern Walden--if Thoreau had had three kids and a minivan--Cabin Fever is a serious yet irreverent take on living in a cabin in the woods while also living within our high-tech, materialist culture"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Deliberate life : a search for balance; title: Picking blackberries : nature and technology; title: In plain sight : vision and revision; title: Fathers watching sons : windows and mirrors; title: Saunter : reason and instinct; title: The gay cardinal : love and instinct; title: Cabin fever : alone and lonely; title: In the time of the cicada : patience and passion; title: Mushrooms : love and sex; title: Lake glass : childhood and parenthood; title: A box of wind : nature and religion; title: Trimming trees : self-reliance and self-destruction - -Constructing truth : wood and word; title: Falling apart : death and birth; title: Coyotes at the mall : predators and prey; title: The art of dying : art and activism; title: Cougars in the corn : facts and truths; title: A familial darkness : desperation and deliberation; title: Travelling at night : seers and seekers; title: Slow pilgrim : walking and praying.