How to Live Off-Grid

Oct 6, 2024 10:29 AM

Author:Nick Rosen

Off-grid: a place, building or person without mains water or power.

Static or mobile - in a house or a hut, a boat or a camper van - to live off-grid is all about loosending the ties that bind us to teh fmailiar world of commuting, mortgages, no time and fast food, in order to rediscover our place in the natural world.

Complete with camper van, Nick sets off around the UK to find off-grid heaven and meet people who are living the dream. Along the way he runs into backpackers and businessmen, radical hermits and right-wing survivalists - and plenty of ordinary working-parent families too.

Sincere but irreverent, this is Nick's guide to avoiding pitfalls, to finding solutions (and some brilliant gadgets) as he strives to perfect the skills of this practical, freewheeling kind of self-sufficiency.

'Timely and highly readable' Sunday Telegraph

' Nick Rosen has caught the zeitgeist.' The Times

Reviews

With his book, [Nick Rosen] has caught the Zeitgeist

—— Anna Shepard , The Times

This is a timely and highly readable examination of what it really means to live and travel 'off-grid'

—— Sunday Telegraph

An inspiring, entertaining and irreverent read

—— Jillian Bolger , Sunday Tribune

An enjoyable, clear-eyed biography

—— Times Literary Supplement

The definitive story of Britain’s greatest ever cyclist

—— Christmas books recommendations , Cycle Sport

A definitive insight into one of cycling’s most intriguing characters and tragic stories

—— Cyclist

His book is not only the day to day battle with the boredom of training, finding the courage to go one step beyond and an utter dedication to a dream, it is also a tribute to the strength that can be found within a loving family

—— Sunday Express

Trower has the perfect pitch for a sentence that illuminates an entire culture

—— Financial Times

His dedication to finding a spiritual dimension to a lost art is hard to fault

—— Wanderlust

Notable for its honesty. The Liverpool defender's published opinion that he is happier retired from international football prompted a media frenzy

—— Martin Pengelly , Guardian

One of the few current footballers worth an autobiography

—— Jonathan Ruppin , Bookseller

Amid the basketful of bland post-World Cup books, McGrath's life story stands out a mile... Fascinating reading.

—— Evening Standard

The Republic of Ireland's most popular sportsman, still adored by fans of Manchester United and Villa.

—— BBC Sport

An all-too honest account of a playing career that just got better and better, despite threatening to go off the rails.

—— Sunday Mercury

An extraordinary book.

—— Irish Independent

Harrowing and brutally honest...a gripping story.

—— Derby Evening Telegraph

Brutally honest.

—— The Irish Post

Less a football autobiography, more repentant confessional.

—— Kevin Hughes , FreeSport

stunning

—— FourFourTwo

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