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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

Culture Gap

Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley

by (author) Judith Plant

Publisher
New Society Publishers
Initial publish date
Apr 2018
Category
Personal Memoirs
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554201334
    Publish Date
    May 2017
    List Price
    $19.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780865718852
    Publish Date
    Apr 2018
    List Price
    $19.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554201426
    Publish Date
    May 2017
    List Price
    $9.99

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Culture Gap: Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley tells the story of a two year sojourn at the Camelsfoot Commume in a remote valley in BC, Canada. The challenges and privations, the joys and adventures of rural communal living, form the backdrop to the human drama the author recounts. Judith and Kip Plant's family includes her children; Willie takes to the new life, but his sisters feel the strong pull of the life they left behind. Meanwhile Fred, the inspiration for the commune, stricken with cancer, is dying.

An absorbing account of a lifestyle emblematic of a time, Culture Gap also shows, from her own older perspective, a young mother's struggles to reconcile her social ideals of personal and environmental responsibility, and loving and caring for those closest to her.

About the author

Judith Plant, together with her late partner Kip, is longtime publisher of New Society Publishers of Gabriola, BC. She co–edited the collections Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism, and Home! A Bioregional Reader.

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