Desde Esta Colina - by Sue Hubbell (Paperback)

About the Book

The Ozarks Mountains are a mythical territory in the North American imagination: a place where, since the mid-20th century, those who fled from the impositions of society, the law, money or themselves were found. Thus, in just a few decades, in that abrupt and wild landscape, fugitives and hippies, Baptists and ufologists, adventurers and scammers gathered... Today, they are even part of show business thanks to highly rated series such as "Mountain Men" (History Channel) or "The Ozarks" (Netflix), but when Sue Hubbell went to live there in the seventies, it was much wilder territory (in every sense). Like so many others, Hubbell arrived trying to escape a life governed by salaries, schedules and what we call "the system." It was impossible, of course, and it didn't take her long to realize it. But the life she found for herself in that place was much better than the one she was looking for. In a way, this book is the story of that search that was frustrated and achieved at the same time, narrated with overflowing intelligence, humor and luminosity.

About the Author

Nació en Kalamazoo, Michigan, en 1935. Tras licenciarse en Periodismo en la Universidad del Sur de California trabajó como librera y bibliotecaria, mientras desarrollaba su compromiso como activista por la paz en diversas organizaciones. En 1973, sin embargo, decide cambiar radicalmente de vida: abandonar su trabajo y la vida urbana, reducir sus ingresos y también sus gastos, de modo que, además, se redujeran los impuestos que debería pagar a un gobierno que seguía amparando la injustificable Guerra de Vietnam. Se marcha entonces a vivir a un remoto lugar de las Montañas Ozarks, en Misuri, donde crea un pequeño negocio de apicultura respetuoso con el bienestar animal y el medio ambiente. Allí escribe Un año en los bosques, considerado hoy en día un libro clásico de la llamada nature writing y del movimiento del decrecimiento, y que ha recibido innumerables elogios a lo largo de varias décadas. También es autora de libros como A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them (1989), Broad Sides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs (1993), Far-Flung Hubbell: Essays from the American Road (1995), Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones (1999), Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew about Genes (2001) o From Here to There and Back Again (2004). Igualmente, Hubbell ha sido colaboradora habitual de publicaciones como The New Yorker, The New York Times, Times Magazine, Harper's o Smithsonian.