Rewilding the urban soul : searching for the wild in the city / Claire Dunn.
Publication details: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2021.Edition: Australian editionDescription: 325 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781925713152
- Dunn, Claire
- Rural women -- Biography -- Australia
- Women -- Biography -- Australia
- Human ecology
- Applied ecology
- Wilderness survival -- Australia
- Human-plant relationships
- Country life -- Australia
- Rural women -- Australia -- Biography
- Sustainable living
- Nature, Healing power of -- Psychological aspects
- City and town life -- Environmental aspects -- Australia
- Sustainability -- Psychological aspects
- Nature -- Psychological aspects
- Women -- Australia -- Biography
- Rural-urban migration -- Australia -- Biography
- Australian
- 304.2092 23
- 920.720994 23
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 304.209 DUN | Available | 063044 |
We're a famously nature-loving nation, yet 86 per cent of Australians call the city home. Amid the concrete and the busyness, how can we also answer the call of the wild? Once upon a time, a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Yet love and the possibilities of human connection drew her back to the city, where she soon found herself as overscheduled, addicted to her phone, and lost in IKEA as the rest of us. Given all the city offers - comfort, convenience, community, and opportunity - she wants to stay. But to do so, she'll have to learn how to rewild her own urban soul. Join Claire as she sits by and swims in the brown waters of the Yarra River, forages for undomesticated food in the suburbs, and explores many other practices in a quest for connection. To make our human hearts whole, she realises, we've all got to pay attention and learn to belong to our cities - our land. This is where change begins. For ourselves and for the world.