This book is not about aspirational living; it’s about practical living. It’s about looking at the world around you and finding where it’s at fault, rather than blaming yourself. It’s about dropping the comfortable prisons we create for ourselves to find the real freedom and happiness we deserve.
We live in a world that is overfed but malnourished, sunlight deficient, overly competitive, sedentary, and sleep deprived. Our blood pressure and stress levels are at record highs, our mental health at record lows. Our eyes are strained from looking at screens all the time, and our backs are killing us. We buy far too much of what we don’t need, and we aren’t even pooing in the right position!
Yet step outside, maybe walk a few minutes down the road, and you will inevitably see plants bursting with nourishment, hear calming birdsong, breath in fresh air, move your stiff body. Perhaps we have the answer to all our modern malaises right here, outside our own homes. Perhaps it is time for a New Wild Order.
Join forager, author, dad, and everyday fella Andy Hamilton, as he answers his own call of the wild, and discovers how it might just save his life ― and yours.
Andy Hamilton is an award-winning non-fiction author and all-round nice chap.
Andy's books reflect his joy of life. They include the best-selling The First Time Forager, Booze for Free; Fermenting Everything, The Perfect Pint, The Selfsufficientish Bible and his brave and thoroughly researched unique nature memoir meets popular science and self-help - New Wild Order. A book that profoundly and utterly changed his life (for the better).
Andy is currently writing acid house tunes, poetry, and he is collecting experiences in the natural world for a new book non-fiction book. He is also tinkering with a novel.
He also finds time to be a hands-on Dad to two young children and to potter about his hilltop area of Bristol drinking tea. He's also turning his small steep garden into a nature haven.