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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 My Year Without Matches : Escaping the City in Search of the Wild
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'In the tradition of Wild and Tracks, one woman’s story of how she left the city and found her soul.

'Disillusioned and burnt out by her job, Claire Dunn quits a comfortable life to spend a year off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Her new forest home swings between ally and enemy as reality – and the rain – sets in.

'Claire’s adventure unfolds over four seasons and in the essential order of survival: shelter, water, fire and food. She arrives in summer, buoyant with idealism, and is initially confronted with physical challenges: building a shelter, escaping the vicious insects and making fire without matches. By winter, however, her emotional landscape has become the toughest terrain of all. Can she connect with her inner spirit to guide her journey onwards?

'Brimming with earthy charm and hard-won wisdom, My Year Without Matches is one woman’s quest for belonging, to the land and to herself. When Claire finally cracks life in the bush wide open, she discovers a wild heart to warm the coldest night.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2014 .
      image of person or book cover 4952190086359313426.jpg
      Cover image courtesy of Black Inc.
      Extent: 288p.
      Note/s:
      • Published June 2014
      ISBN: 9781863956529
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2015 .
      image of person or book cover 2628662221664916665.jpg
      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 288p.
      Note/s:
      • Published March 2015
      ISBN: 9781863957212

Works about this Work

[Review] My Year without Matches Robyn Douglass , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 26 July 2014; (p. 23)

— Review of My Year Without Matches : Escaping the City in Search of the Wild Claire Dunn , 2014 single work autobiography
Call of the Wild Claire Dunn , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Life , 1 June 2014; (p. 15)
[Review] My Year without Matches Robyn Douglass , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 26 July 2014; (p. 23)

— Review of My Year Without Matches : Escaping the City in Search of the Wild Claire Dunn , 2014 single work autobiography
Call of the Wild Claire Dunn , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: Sunday Life , 1 June 2014; (p. 15)
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