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Desert Solitaire
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4.18 avg rating — 54,793 ratings
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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4.08 avg rating — 30,038 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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3.77 avg rating — 205,005 ratings
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The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
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4.12 avg rating — 2,020 ratings
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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
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3.96 avg rating — 4,640 ratings
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Old-Fashioned on Purpose: A Homesteading Manifesto—Rediscovering Simplicity and Meaning Through the Lost Arts of the Past such as Gardening, Canning and More
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4.39 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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Loving and Leaving the Good Life (Good Life Series)
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4.09 avg rating — 346 ratings
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The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm--And Built a New Life
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4.13 avg rating — 1,955 ratings
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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
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3.85 avg rating — 1,285 ratings
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Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work
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4.41 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm
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3.98 avg rating — 1,378 ratings
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A Place in the Woods
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4.24 avg rating — 753 ratings
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Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
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3.50 avg rating — 4,858 ratings
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Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
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4.22 avg rating — 2,221 ratings
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We Took to the Woods
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4.23 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
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3.93 avg rating — 9,130 ratings
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Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills
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3.96 avg rating — 835 ratings
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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
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4.37 avg rating — 9,546 ratings
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Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods
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4.23 avg rating — 597 ratings
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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
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4.22 avg rating — 3,363 ratings
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Storms: The way of the mariner
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4.92 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Between Rock And A Home Place
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3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Finding Turtle Farm: My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community-Supported Agriculture
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4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Good Life of Helen K. Nearing
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3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Daffodil Hill: Uprooting My Life, Buying a Farm, and Learning to Bloom
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3.92 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Woodswoman I: Living Alone in the Adirondack Wilderness
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4.16 avg rating — 3,061 ratings
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Farm Girl: A Memoir
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4.61 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Woodswoman II: Beyond Black Bear Lake
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4.25 avg rating — 754 ratings
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Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
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4.42 avg rating — 7,959 ratings
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The Last of the Mountain Men: The True Story of an Idaho Solitary
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4.06 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Woodswoman IV: Book Four of the Woodswoman's Adventures
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4.31 avg rating — 132 ratings
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First Person Rural
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4.01 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Woodswoman III: Book Three of the Woodswoman's Adventures
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4.23 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Country Grit: A Farmoir of Finding Purpose and Love
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4.20 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Second Person Rural
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4.16 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer
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4.36 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Gift of the Deer
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4.39 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Changing Season: A Father, A Daughter, A Family Farm
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4.16 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Last Person Rural
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4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Years of the Forest
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4.38 avg rating — 218 ratings
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In One Place: The Natural History of a Georgia Farmer
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Rural Life
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3.91 avg rating — 469 ratings
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The Long-Shadowed Forest
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4.35 avg rating — 118 ratings
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A Farm Dies Once a Year
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3.51 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
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3.69 avg rating — 1,282 ratings
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Harlan Hubbard: Journals, 1929-1944
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
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3.62 avg rating — 2,566 ratings
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Shantyboat: A River Way of Life
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4.29 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Deep Woods, Wild Waters: A Memoir
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4.25 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Payne Hollow: Life on the Fringe of Society
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4.27 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley (Volume 2) (North Texas Lives of Musician Series)
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4.27 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Shantyboat Journal
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4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Payne Hollow Journal
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4.19 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Anna Hubbard: Out of the Shadows
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family's Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table
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4.24 avg rating — 776 ratings
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Scott Nearing: The Making of a Homesteader (Good Life Series): An Intellectual Biography
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3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Unearthed: Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden
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3.81 avg rating — 452 ratings
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The Good Life Album of Helen & Scott Nearing
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living
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3.75 avg rating — 216 ratings
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My Neck of the Woods
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4.31 avg rating — 144 ratings
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In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden
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4.28 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Happy the Land
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Crossing Wildcat Ridge: A Memoir of Nature and Healing
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Two Environmental Classics: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature & Henry David Thoreau's Walking
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4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home
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4.16 avg rating — 338 ratings
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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4.31 avg rating — 36,593 ratings
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Wilderness Coast
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4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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A Place Like This
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At Home in Nature: A Life of Unknown Mountains and Deep Wilderness
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3.96 avg rating — 76 ratings
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A Family Place: A Man Returns to the Center of His Life
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4.01 avg rating — 71 ratings
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At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America
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3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings
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A Place of Refuge: An Experiment in Communal Living – The Story of Windsor Hill Wood
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4.27 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Flight from the city: An experiment in creative living on the land (Colophon Books)
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4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living
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3.91 avg rating — 942 ratings
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This ugly civilization (The American utopian adventure: series two)
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4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
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A Place Called Sweet Apple: Country Living and Southern Recipes
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4.17 avg rating — 76 ratings
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500 Acres and No Place to Hide: More Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl
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3.52 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management
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3.99 avg rating — 546 ratings
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: A Singer's Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberies
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4.50 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Dispatches from the Sweet Life: One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World
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3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Into the Wilderness: One Woman's Extraordinary Journey through Corruption, Lies, and Betrayal
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City
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4.01 avg rating — 968 ratings
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Ten Acres Enough: The Classic 1864 Guide to Independent Farming
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4.15 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
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4.07 avg rating — 8,621 ratings
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Four Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening Life
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3.31 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
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3.96 avg rating — 8,824 ratings
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Three Acres and Liberty
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3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings
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It's Not My Mountain Anymore
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3.89 avg rating — 104 ratings
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A Little Land and a Living
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Cabin Lessons: A Nail-by-Nail Tale: Building Our Dream Cottage from 2x4s, Blisters, and Love
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3.94 avg rating — 197 ratings
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My Handkerchief Garden. Size 25 x 60 Feet. Results: A Garden, Fresh Vegetables, Exercise, Health, and $20.49
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The Road to Walden: 12 Life Lessons from a Sojourn to Thoreau's Cabin
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2.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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4.05 avg rating — 113,352 ratings
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The Contrary Farmer (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
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4.23 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm
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4.18 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream
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4.41 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Gene Everlasting: A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever
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4.13 avg rating — 92 ratings
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A Sanctuary of Trees
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You Can Go Home Again: Adventures of a Contrary Life
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The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse
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