Book description
Off-grid: a place, building or person without mains water or power.
Static or mobile - in a house or a hut, a boat or a camper van - to
live off-grid is all about loosending the ties that bind us to teh
fmailiar world of commuting, mortgages, no time and fast food, in
order to rediscover our place in the natural world.
Complete with camper van, Nick sets off around the UK to find
off-grid heaven and meet people who are living the dream. Along the
way he runs into backpackers and businessmen, radical hermits and
right-wing survivalists - and plenty of ordinary working-parent
families too.
Sincere but irreverent, this is Nick's guide to avoiding pitfalls,
to finding solutions (and some brilliant gadgets) as he strives to
perfect the skills of this practical, freewheeling kind of self-sufficiency.
'Timely and highly readable' Sunday Telegraph
' Nick Rosen has caught the zeitgeist.' The Times
Nick Rosen
is an award-winning documentary-maker, journalist and media analyst. He
has produced and directed documentaries for ITV, Channel 4 (including
Brezhnev's Daughter
which won Best International Programme: New York Film and TV Festival
1994, and the widely praised documentary for PBS and C4 about the
rebuilding of the World Trade Center in New York) and for BBC Radio 4.
In 1995 he founded one of the first UK Web-design companies and he wrote
the Durlacher Report, a financial study of the Internet which spawned a
generation of Internet investors. He's also launched a website on
off-griding: www. off-grid. net.
