“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”– American naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau

Sonya Wilson meets two international authors whose work captures what living intentionally with the land means in their respective corners of the world.

Norway’s Lars Mytting’s writing about the ancient art of wood-fire and Scandinavia’s culture around firewood became the global bestseller Norwegian Wood.

Irishman John Connell’s popular The Cow Book and Twelve Sheep explore his experience of returning to the farming ways of his Irish family.

Tickets available here: https://www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/event/life-on-the-land/1497695/