{"product_id":"going-to-seed-a-counterculture-memoir","title":"Going to Seed: A Counterculture Memoir","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGoing to Seed: A Counterculture Memoir\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSimon Fairlie\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781645020615\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eChelsea Green Publishing UK\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential--and unusual--eco-activist you might not have heard of.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003cstrong\u003eOver the course of fifty years, we witness a man's drive for self-sufficiency, freedom, authenticity, and a deep connection to the land.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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 \u003cem\u003eGoing to Seed\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart moving, free-wheeling memoir, part social critique, \u003cem\u003eGoing to Seed \u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This is a fascinating, funny and moving record of an extraordinary life lived in extraordinary times.\"--\u003c\/strong\u003eGeorge Monbiot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Chelsea Green Publishing UK","offers":[{"title":"Going to Seed: A Counterculture Memoir | Simon Fairlie | Paperback | 9781645020615 | Used: Very Good | Memoir 1656942","offer_id":50780535587074,"sku":"1656942","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61gUMYDKzZL.jpg?v=1792195872","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/going-to-seed-a-counterculture-memoir","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}