New Wild Order:
How Answering the Call of the Wild Might Just Save Your Life (and Sanity)
New Wild Order:
How Answering the Call of the Wild Might Just Save Your Life (and Sanity)
Overview
This book is not about aspirational living; it’s about practical living. It’s about looking at the world around you and finding where it’s at fault, rather than blaming yourself. It’s about dropping the comfortable prisons we create for ourselves to find the real freedom and happiness we deserve.
We live in a world that is overfed but malnourished, sunlight deficient, overly competitive, sedentary, and sleep deprived. Our blood pressure and stress levels are at record highs, our mental health at record lows. Our eyes are strained from looking at screens all the time, and our backs are killing us. We buy far too much of what we don’t need, and we aren’t even pooing in the right position!
Yet step outside, maybe walk a few minutes down the road, and you will inevitably see plants bursting with nourishment, hear calming birdsong, breathe in fresh air, move your stiff body. Perhaps we have the answer to all our modern malaises right here, outside our own homes. Perhaps it is time for a New Wild Order.
Join forager, author, dad, and everyday fella Andy Hamilton, as he answers his own call of the wild, and discovers how it might just save his life — and yours.
Details
- Format
- Size
- Extent
- ISBN
- RRP
- Pub date
- Rights held
- Other rights
- Hardback
- 216mm x 135mm
- 320 pages
- 9781915590305
- GBP£18.99
- 13 February 2025
- UK & Commonwealth (ex. Can)
- Wolf Literary Services
Praise
‘Andy Hamilton is a man who “walks the talk” on the wild-side and his writing is compelling, insightful, and hugely entertaining. Andy’s message could be paraphrased as ‘to be well, be wild’ and this book is a key to the door that leads us outside, to our truer wilder selves.’
‘Andy Hamilton offers something rare these days — hope. Whilst acknowledging the mess we’ve made of the planet he points us in a new direction — back to our literal and metaphorical roots. He knows the only way we can heal our world — and heal our inner disquiet — is by inviting the natural world back into our lives. He reminds us of that we only flourish when we embrace nature — and a life disconnected from the wild is hollow and unsatisfactory. As a guide to what we have lost — and how we can embrace it once more — Andy is unsurpassed. He offers simple solutions to buoy us up, inspire us and propel us forward — turbo-charged by that wonder ingredient — nature. I can honestly say, having interviewed many 100s of writers, no one matches the sheer inspirational zeal of Andy Hamilton.’
About the Author
Andy Hamilton is an author, forager, thinker, researcher, and dad. Descriptions that, along with his love of the natural world, often inform his bestselling and award-winning works, which include The First Time Forager, Booze for Free, and The Selfsufficient-ish Bible. Andy originated the Association of Foragers, an international body and tight-knit community of those working with wild food. He lives with his family in Bristol, who get around without a car, and forage, and tree climb together.
