{"product_id":"food-writing-memoir-john-lewis-stempel-the-wild-life-a-year-of-living-on-wild-food","title":"SALE! (Food Writing - Memoir) John Lewis-Stempel. The Wild Life: A Year of Living on Wild Food. U.K. IMPORT","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWalking around his Herefordshire farm one October, John Lewis-Stempel saw a trout flash in the brook, mushrooms sprinkle the fields, a squirrel eat hazelnuts, and thought: Wouldn't it be wonderful if one could live just on what Nature provided for free?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Wild Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is John's account of twelve months eating only food shot, caught or foraged from the fields, hedges, copse and brook of his forty-acre farm. Nothing from a shop and nothing raised from agriculture. Could it even be done?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJohn takes the reader on a Thoreau-esque journey through a landscape that is true England as he uncovers the ancient past of his five-hundred-year-old farm and the startling symmetries between his life now and that of the farm's peasant founders. Lyrical, observant and sometimes mordantly funny, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Wild Life\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis an extraordinary celebration of our natural heritage. And a testament to the importance of getting back to one's roots — spiritually and practically.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Omnivore Books on Food","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39449239355554,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/0463\/6790\/products\/51TGxw71R3L.jpg?v=1616012706","url":"https:\/\/omnivorebooks.myshopify.com\/products\/food-writing-memoir-john-lewis-stempel-the-wild-life-a-year-of-living-on-wild-food","provider":"Omnivore Books on Food","version":"1.0","type":"link"}