Error loading page.
Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.
Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help.
Advanced
Title details for My Year Without Matches by Claire Dunn - Available

My Year Without Matches

by Claire Dunn
ebook
Read a sample Read a sample
In the tradition of Wild and Tracks, one woman's story of how she left the city and found her soul.
Disillusioned and burnt out by her job, Claire Dunn quits a comfortable life to spend a year off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Her new forest home swings between ally and enemy as reality – and the rain – sets in.
Claire's adventure unfolds over four seasons and in the essential order of survival: shelter, water, fire and food. She arrives in summer, buoyant with idealism, and is initially confronted with physical challenges: building a shelter, escaping the vicious insects and making fire without matches. By winter, however, her emotional landscape has become the toughest terrain of all. Can she connect with her inner spirit to guide her journey onwards?
Brimming with earthy charm and hard-won wisdom, My Year Without Matches is one woman's quest for belonging, to the land and to herself. When Claire finally cracks life in the bush wide open, she discovers a wild heart to warm the coldest night.
'A brave and adventurous book ... Claire's writing is full of life and profound surprises.' —Anne Deveson
'An entertaining look at how Dunn survived for four seasons in a 'hundred acres of baking scrubland' —Sun Herald
'With earthy, expressive honesty she shares her struggles [and] the swooping highs of crafting life out of a block of unforgiving scrub... by sharing such an intimate journey, Claire has given us all a gift.' —WellBeing Magazine
Expand title description text
Publisher: Schwartz Books Pty. Ltd.

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781922231543
  • Release date: May 28, 2014

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781922231543
  • File size: 2278 KB
  • Release date: May 28, 2014
Loading
Loading

Formats

OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Nature New Age Self-Improvement Nonfiction

Languages

English

In the tradition of Wild and Tracks, one woman's story of how she left the city and found her soul.
Disillusioned and burnt out by her job, Claire Dunn quits a comfortable life to spend a year off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Her new forest home swings between ally and enemy as reality – and the rain – sets in.
Claire's adventure unfolds over four seasons and in the essential order of survival: shelter, water, fire and food. She arrives in summer, buoyant with idealism, and is initially confronted with physical challenges: building a shelter, escaping the vicious insects and making fire without matches. By winter, however, her emotional landscape has become the toughest terrain of all. Can she connect with her inner spirit to guide her journey onwards?
Brimming with earthy charm and hard-won wisdom, My Year Without Matches is one woman's quest for belonging, to the land and to herself. When Claire finally cracks life in the bush wide open, she discovers a wild heart to warm the coldest night.
'A brave and adventurous book ... Claire's writing is full of life and profound surprises.' —Anne Deveson
'An entertaining look at how Dunn survived for four seasons in a 'hundred acres of baking scrubland' —Sun Herald
'With earthy, expressive honesty she shares her struggles [and] the swooping highs of crafting life out of a block of unforgiving scrub... by sharing such an intimate journey, Claire has given us all a gift.' —WellBeing Magazine
Expand title description text
Nature New Age Self-Improvement Nonfiction