{"product_id":"culture-gap-towards-a-new-world-in-the-yalakom-valley-paperback","title":"Culture Gap: Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudith Plant\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis fascinating memoir recounts two years of adventure, hardship, and life lessons as a woman moves her family to the Camelsfoot Commune in BC, Canada. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe time is the early 1980s. Judith Plant and her new partner, Kip, are ready for a change. Inspired by Fred Brown, their professor at Simon Fraser University, they join a commune in a remote valley near the Yalakom River, deep in Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCulture Gap \u003c\/em\u003etells the story of Judith and Kip's two-year sojourn. The challenges and privations, the joys and adventures of rural communal living, form the backdrop to a moving human drama. Judith's son Willie takes to the new life, but Willie's sisters feel the strong pull of the life they left behind. Meanwhile Fred, the inspiration for the commune, is dying of cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn absorbing account of a lifestyle emblematic of a time, \u003cem\u003eCulture Gap \u003c\/em\u003ealso shows a young mother's struggle to reconcile her ideals and her responsibility to those closest to her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudith Plant takes us on a journey we're not likely to forget. Thanks to her candour and the bold questions she leaves us with, this journey deepens our own search for relevance in a radically changing world. \u003c\/i\u003e-- Joanna Macy, author of \u003cem\u003eWidening Circles: A Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecades ago, out back of beyond, Camelsfoot, a philosophical commune aspired to \"self-conscious culture making.\" Imbued with her conviction that a \"meaningful and caring life with others is our natural right,\" Judith Plant's memoir of its fleeting achievement and many uncommon good times glows with wisdom, complexity, and compassion. A noble read.\u003c\/i\u003e -- Stephanie Mills, author of \u003cem\u003eEpicurean Simplicity \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eIn Service of the Wild\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe experiment of utopia has a long track record of failure, yet its allure will forever capture our dreams of possibility. It takes great courage to plunge into its trials and tribulations. It takes even greater courage to emerge at the other end knowing you have failed, and then write -- with sensitivity and openness -- about the many losses...and gains. Judith Plant embodies such courage. Her work is a testament to the power of \"lived experience.\"\u003c\/i\u003e -- Alejandro Frid, author of \u003cem\u003eA world for My Daughter: An Ecologist's Search for Optimism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudith Plant captures the spirit of a generation. Trust, good politics, community, imagination, culture creation, surprise, disappointment, death -- all figure into this spark of twentieth-century history.\u003c\/i\u003e -- Chellis Glendinning, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Name is Chellis\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eI'm in Recovery from Western Civilization\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe passion with which some of the people tried to develop new ways of living and relating to each other filters through these pages with truth, as does the confusion in which participants were frequently mired. This is how it was. May other generations read this book with curiosity and learn from our trials, for their own evolution.\u003c\/i\u003e -- Delores Broten, editor of \u003cem\u003eWatershed Sentinel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Plant\u003c\/b\u003e is the acting publisher of New Society Publishers and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eHealing the Wounds: the Promise of Ecofeminism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHome! A Bioregional Reader\u003c\/i\u003e. She lived in Camelsfoot for two years in the early 1980's with her children and her partner, Kip, and now lives on Gabriola Island, BC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Plant\u003c\/b\u003e is the acting publisher of New Society Publishers and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eHealing the Wounds: the Promise of Ecofeminism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHome! A Bioregional Reader\u003c\/i\u003e. She lived in Camelsfoot for two years in the early 1980's with her children and her partner, Kip, and now lives on Gabriola Island, BC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9.7 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758088782112,"sku":"9780865718852","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/52c48149d702a855c2e9e76197665d43.webp?v=1780117729","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/culture-gap-towards-a-new-world-in-the-yalakom-valley-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}