WOOD, STONE, AND TIDE: THE HANDMADE LIFE – AND DEATH – OF WILLIAM COPERTHWAITE
Book ID/图书代码： 03008014B74068
English Summary/英文概要： On a winter morning in 2013, six people paddled the body of their close friend across a bay to a wild homestead on the coast of Maine where he
would be buried in a hand-dug grave. Among the paddling mourners were Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow.
Wood, Stone, and Tide is their story—part memoir and part biography—of their longtime friendship with William Coperthwaite (A Handmade Life)
whose unusual life and fierce ideals helped others examine and understand their own. It is also a story about the tensions and complexities of
mentorship: the opening of one’s life to someone else to learn together, and carrying on in their physical absence. Wood, Stone, and Tide is also a
remembrance of the life, and death, of Coperthwaite—a homesteader and social critic in the lineage of Henry David Thoreau and Scott Nearing—and his fifty-year experiment in living on a remote stretch of Maine coast. Plenty of people can put out their ideas for reform. A pitiful few have designed their lives to reflect their ideals as closely as possible. Bill is one of those few uncompromising souls, unblinded by convention, unsocialized, living what some would call an experimental life but proving it real for nearly 50 years.
Told through the adventure of building a home with him, Coperthwaite’s last concentric yurt—the building form for which he was best known—on a
stretch of coast accessible only by boat, the authors explore and reveal the timeless lessons of Coperthwaite’s experiment in intentional living and self reliance.While mourning his death and coming to understand the real meaning of his life and how it endures in their own lives, Peter and Helen handcraft a story that reveals the importance of a life that seeks out direct experience, is drawn to beauty and simplicity, creates rather than critiques, and encourages others.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2013年一个冬天的早上，六个人带着好友的尸体横渡海湾到达缅因州一个野外的宅院，准备将尸体葬在用手挖开的坟墓中。皮特•弗比斯，海伦•怀布洛就在六人当中。
本书讲的是他们六人的故事，即是回忆录，又是传记，他们的老友威廉姆•古波斯维特不平凡的一生和激情的理想鼓舞着人们审视和理解自身。本书又是关于师友间紧张复杂的关系：一个人生命的开始，和他人一道学习，直到肉体的消亡。本书也是古波斯维特生与死的回忆，一个继承了亨利•D•梭罗和斯科特•尼尔林血统的开拓者，社会评论家，和他生活在缅因州偏僻海岸半个世纪的经历。很多人可以去改变自己的观点。少数可怜人把自己的人生设计地尽可能去贴近理想化。比尔就是这些不愿妥协的灵魂之一，不为规矩所约束，不肯融入社会，过着被称作试验般的生活，但是，他用了五十年去证明这没有错。
古波斯维特最著名的环形帐篷建筑坐落在一个只能用船到达的海岸，听了和他一起建造家园的经历，作者探索且阐明了古波斯维特的生活和自给自足给人带来的永恒教育。在哀悼他的逝去，逐渐理解他的人生的意义，和这之间的忍耐的同时，彼得和海伦写下了这个故事，揭示了在生命中通过美丽和单纯而非批判去鼓励他人的重要性。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 彼得，折衷主义摄影家，作家，一位父亲，一个农民，一位促进者，他结合不寻常的实践角度和理想，在土地保护，领导力提高，可持续，和慈善领域进行创造性的革新。他和海伦还有女儿在佛蒙特州狂河谷从事农业生产。了解更多访问Peterforbes.org
海伦是从事图书出版的教育家，农民，作家。后来海伦离开出版业，和皮特一起开发了被称为全国公认的学习之地和创新之地的“全社会中心”。目前她全职经营着家庭有机农场，同时在家中教育他们的孩子，也继续着写作生涯。了解更多他们的农场和项目访问：www.knollfarm.org
Peter’s eclectic life as photographer, writer, father, farmer and facilitator combine unusual aspects of the practical with the visionary to creatively innovate within the worlds of land conservation, leadership development, sustainability, and philanthropy. He and Helen and their daughters farm in the Mad River Valley of Vermont. You can learn more about him at Peterforbes.org
Helen’s life as an educator, farmer, and writer follows a career in book publishing. Helen left publishing to launch with Peter what became a
nationally recognized place of learning and change-making: Center for Whole Communities. She now manages their organic family farm full-time
while also homeschooling their child and continuing her writing life. You can learn more about their farm and ongoing projects at www.knollfarm.org
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