Expedition from the backdoor
Primrose, Yvette, 1966-2018
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Expedition from the Backdoor documents a feat of personal strength and tenacity in the face of physical and social limitations. It traces the expedition: a 1000km walk, along footpaths, towpaths and mountain trails, from Yvette's home in Shropshire, to Knoydart in Scotland, from its modest beginnings through its evolution into a life-changing adventure. The unique elements of the expedition, which build progressively in the book, were the limits that Yvette placed upon herself in order to make it meaningful, and to make it a genuine test of her survival skills: sleeping rough with no tent, carrying her kit (amounting to nearly 20 kilos) and all her food other than wild sources that she foraged, avoiding technology (including industrially produced foods and modern fuels and stoves), and staying true to a self-reliant ethic - all these in the context of illness, injury and menopause.
Main title:
Expedition from the backdoor / Yvette Primrose.
Author:
Primrose, Yvette, 1966-, author
Imprint:
Kibworth : The Book Guild Ltd, 2018.
Collation:
xviii, 162 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9781912362912
Dewey class:
613.69092613.690
Local class:
914.14
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2516226