sageandfern 's review for:

The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish wilderness by Will Millard, Ken Smith

4.0

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I don't have much to add to the goodreads blurb. Ken Smith is not a misanthrope; he seems to enjoy company and people well enough, but he hates modern British working-class life (a reasonable thing to hate) and loves being in nature, and likes doing things his own way, and so here he is, a hermit in the Scottish highlands. The book is lovely. It left me thinking about the similarities and differences between Ken's philosophy of living in nature and that of indigenous people - one big difference being that most indigenous people put a high value on community. But many of his ideas about stewardship and reciprocity seem familiar from indigenous writers.