{"product_id":"going-to-seed-a-counterculture-memoir-paperback-2","title":"Going to Seed: A Counterculture Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimon Fairlie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential--and unusual--eco-activist you might not have heard of.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unforgettable firsthand account of how the hippie movement flowered in the late 1960s, appeared spent by the Thatcher-consumed 1980s, yet became the seedbed for progressive reform we now take for granted--and continues to inspire generations of rebels and visionaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fairlie has a refreshingly declarative style: he's analytical, funny and self-aware. . . His memoir has much to offer anyone interested in movement history or in the future of intentional communities.\"--Elizabeth Royte, Food \u0026amp; Environment Reporting Network\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a young age, Simon Fairlie rejected the rat race and embarked on a new trip to find his own path. He dropped out of Cambridge University to hitchhike to Istanbul and bicycle through India. He established a commune in France, was arrested multiple times for squatting and civil disobedience, and became a leading figure in protests against the British government's road building programs of the 1980s and--later--in legislative battles to help people secure access to land for low impact, sustainable living. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOver the course of fifty years, we witness a man's drive for self-sufficiency, freedom, authenticity, and a deep connection to the land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFairlie grew up in a middle-class household in leafy middle England. His path had been laid out for him by his father: boarding school, Oxbridge, and a career in journalism. But everything changed when Simon's life ran headfirst into London's counterculture in the 1960s. Finding Beat poetry, blues music, cannabis and anti-Vietnam War protests unlocked a powerful lust to be free. Instead of becoming a celebrated Fleet Street journalist like his father, Simon became a laborer, a stonemason, a farmer, a scythesman, and then a magazine editor and a writer of a very different sort. In \u003ci\u003eGoing to Seed\u003c\/i\u003e he shares the highs of his experience, alongside the painful costs of his ongoing search for freedom--estrangement from his family, financial insecurity, and the loss of friends and lovers to the excesses and turbulence that continued through the 70s and 80s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart moving, free-wheeling memoir, part social critique, \u003ci\u003eGoing to Seed \u003c\/i\u003equestions the current trajectory of Western \"progress\"--and the explosive consumerism, growing inequality, and environmental devastation laid bare in our daily newsfeeds--and will resonate with anyone who wonders what the world might look like if we began to chart a radically different course. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is a fascinating, funny and moving record of an extraordinary life lived in extraordinary times.\"--\u003c\/b\u003eGeorge Monbiot\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimon Fairlie worked for twenty years variously as an agricultural labourer, vine worker, shepherd, fisherman, builder and stonemason before being ensnared by the computer in 1990. He was a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEcologist\u003c\/i\u003e magazine for four years until he joined a farming community in 1994 where he managed the cows, pigs and a working horse. He now runs a micro dairy at Monkton Wyld Court, a charity and cooperative in rural Dorset. Simon is a founding editor of \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and he earns a living by selling scythes. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLow Impact Development: Planning and People in a Sustainable Countryside\u003c\/i\u003e (1996) and \u003ci\u003eMeat: A Benign Extravagance\u003c\/i\u003e (2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 06, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47411720126685,"sku":"9781645020615","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/8dV5l86RLf9781645020615.webp?v=1783881069","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/going-to-seed-a-counterculture-memoir-paperback-2","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}