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Sarah Wheeldon

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A book that should have been a magazine article

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2 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-21-23

This book lost me after a couple chapters. A lengthy book cycling around one repetitive point that doesn’t extend much past the writers personal experience of hiking and doing yoga in the woods. He fills each chapter with slightly altering, mostly elementary adjectives that paint a picture of basic experiences designed to capture the novice wannabes who desire to, but have never been in nature. For someone encouraging the reader to get back in touch, the writer is wildly out of touch for how one might go about that. Claiming someone almost fell over after walking barefoot for the first time in 15 years (because he was never barefoot in his home??), that deer seemed to be teleported to him while meditating in the woods, and that his 6-year-old daughter asked him to start a fire and build a “debris” shelter (apparently she’s well versed in common bushcraft shelter types), seems preposterous and embellished. I’m not buying it: the book or the BS. On the right track for a concept, it just didn’t hit the mark.

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Worth the read not sure it’s worth a listen.

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4 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 02-28-22

The overall information in this book was worth the listen. However, the unusually raspy intensity in which it was narrated was almost too distracting to hear the content.

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Worth it!

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-04-21

Can’t say enough about this great book. Wonderfully put together, amazing story, great narration. Not a moment of my time wasted.

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