Synopses & Reviews
In our technology-driven, workaday world, connecting with nature has never before been more essential. AWilder Life, a beautiful oversized lifestyle book by the team behind the popular Wilder Quarterly, gives readers indispensable ideas for interacting with the great outdoors. Learn to plant a night-blooming garden, navigate by reading the stars, build an outdoor shelter, make dry shampoo, identify insects, cultivate butterflies in a backyard, or tint your clothes with natural dyes. Like a modern-day Whole Earth Catalog, A Wilder Life gives us DIY projects and old-world skills that are being reclaimed by a new generation. Divided into sections pertaining to each season and covering self-reliance, growing and gardening, cooking, health and beauty, and wilderness, and with photos and illustrations evocative of the great outdoors, A Wilder Life shows that getting in touch with nature is possible no matter who you are and—more important—where you are.
About the Author
Celestine Maddy, founder and publisher of Wilder Quarterly, and Abbye Churchill, Wilder’s editorial director, have spent the last five years inspiring and helping readers of their magazine connect with the great outdoors. Celestine is a longtime gardener who splits her time between Los Angeles and New York growing strange plants in her backyard, hiking with her husband, and hanging out in the corners of the Internet. Abbye is a writer, artist, and herbalist living in Chicago who spends her free time traveling the world in search of unique natural experiences.