Under the Open Skies

Finding Peace and Health in Nature,
by Markus Torgeby, Sweden
photos by Frida Torgeby, Sweden.
translated by Christian Gullette.
For four years, Markus Torgeby lived alone in a hut he built with his hands in the Jämtland forest on the northern tip of Sweden, reconnecting with nature, and healing from the stress and strain of urban life and an athletic career derailed by injury. Living in the forest, he found the solitude and silence he needed to be reborn. Now he's written a guide for living outdoors and communing with the natural world, with lessons both practical—how to make fire, how to craft an outdoor bed, how to tap trees for water—and profound—what it means to become one with the natural world, to reconnect with yourself and your surroundings.
Illustrated with 75 beautiful full-color photographs taken by his wife, this is an invitation—to the stressed, disconnected, and lonely, to those who wonder how life got so complicated—to come home to nature, to open the mind and heart to the wide-open sky.
International Bestseller.
Hardcover, 180pp. 2020