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Woman in the Wilderness

My Story of Love, Survival and Self-Discovery

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Woman in the Wilderness

By: Miriam Lancewood
Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
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'My life is free, random and spontaneous. This in itself creates enormous energy and clarity in body and mind.' (Miriam Lancewood).

Miriam Lancewood is a young Dutch woman living a primitive, nomadic life in the heart of the mountains with her New Zealand husband. She lives simply in a tent or hut and survives by hunting wild animals, foraging edible plants and using minimal supplies. For the last six years she has lived this way, through all seasons, often cold, hungry and isolated in the bush. She loves her life and feels free, connected to the land and happy.

This book tells her story, including the very practical aspects of such a life: her difficulties learning to hunt with a bow and arrow, struggles to create a warm environment in which to live, attempts to cross raging rivers safely and find ways through the rugged mountains and dense bush. This is interwoven with her adjustment to a very slow pace of life, her relationship with her much older husband, her interactions with the few other people they encounter, and her growing awareness of a strong spiritual connection to the natural world.

©2017 Miriam Lancewood (P)2017 Audible, Ltd Animals Biological Sciences Hunting Hunting & Fishing Outdoors & Nature Science Inspiring Heartfelt
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What an amazing story...I read / listen a lot but I particularly enjoyed this book. Beautifully written and Miriam illustrates the beauty and power of nature - and of the human spirit - in a wonderful way. For anyone who loves nature, and / or feels that modern life is just a soulless treadmill, this is essential reading. The book contains, in my opinion, much for humans to learn about how to live. I didn’t want this book to end!

Inspiring and thought-provoking

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It's always nice to read or listen to a book that can make you feel you in the place the author is describing. For me I thouroughly enjoyed this book and was sorry when it finished. Well written and really well narrated.

A really enjoyable story.

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very well presented book and well read. captivating adventure that'll make you want to give everything up and move to the wild. in fact...... see ya off I go

loved every minute

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This book takes you on an amazing and inspiring journey of courage, adventure and love! It’s nature writing at its best but also thought provoking and about relationships. I loved it.

Wildly inspiring

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Oh how I loved this audio book, such an adventure. vividly described and so uplifting. What a brave and courageous couple they are. I kept thinking something awful or bad was going to happen to them but thankfully nothing like that ever happened which makes a change from most books. The narrator was excellent and captured all the accents so well that it could have been Miriam reading it herself...I hope she has written another book about their next journey?

What a wonderful journey

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