Will Bonsall

Enthusiastically gave this book away and now, a couple years later, I bought two copies so I could enjoy it and give another away. It's an imaginative page-turner full of drama and humor -- a fascinating vision of our sustainable future, glimpsed through fictional utopian allegory. Skill-based guilds, working in community, build peaceful barter relations as a future era emerges after the collapse of post-petroleum civilization. Based on a veteran homesteader and story-teller's keen observations of human potential when people in thriving, dispersed settlements move from a domination model to one of harmoniously exploring equilibrium between human society and natural resources.… (més)