The Path to the Wilderness Can Be Yours!

Vancouver, February 9, 2016 (Newswire.com) - Off Grid and Free is an exciting new memoir that follows Ron Melchiore's path to the wilderness, which led him to building an off-grid, sustainable homestead with his wife Johanna. Here you will find true stories of survival, determination, and adventure. Ron's years of experience make this book an essential guide for all audiences wanting to learn more about living off grid and surviving in the wilderness. But more than a guide, Off Grid and Free reveals Ron's candid humor and welcoming style, which will make you feel like you're right there with him along the way.

The book includes Ron's hiking of the 2,100 mile Appalachian Trail in winter, bicycling from coast to coast, the terror of being surrounded by a wildfire, surprise encounters with bears, and more. For readers with an outdoor spirit, people with an off grid and self-sufficiency bent, and dreamers who want to take an adventure, Ron hopes to inspire others to “take the road less traveled.”

Getting away from it all is indeed an increasingly sought-after form of lifestyle migration driven—unlike much migratory patterns—not by economic reasons but rather by the existential need to live life on one's own terms, in a more basic and simple (though obviously at times very complicated!) manner. In this way wilderness areas serve as prime testing grounds for such lifestyle experiments, allowing individuals to start fresh, to clean the slate—as it were—and re-invent modern living.

Phillip Vannini, Professor, Royal Roads University

Published in Backhome Magazine, Small Farmer's Journal, and Countryside and Small Stock Journal, Ron and his wife also appear in Life Off Grid, a film and book about people living off grid throughout Canada. Life Off Grid is produced by Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggard. See http://lifeoffgrid.ca/ for more information.

Moon Willow Press (MWP) is an independent, niche publisher committed to helping sustain forests while celebrating the written word. MWP publishes environmental nonfiction and eco-fiction; the publisher gives back to the environment by donating a portion of book sales to organizations that plant non-invasive trees that assist in ecologically and economically depressed areas.