"I want to get married, go out west, build a log cabin, raise a bunch of kids, volunteer in my community, and then write a book about it."
In 1978, during a golden age of middle-class prosperity, newly wed Kevin and Eleanor, like other young people at the time, felt the irresistible pull of the Back-to-the-Land movement and left behind everything they knew and loved to live far from the city and off the grid. As they searched western Canada for...