Atulya K Bingham is now a well-known off-gridder and earth whisperer. It wasn’t always this way. A few years ago she was a teacher who couldn’t even bang a nail in. That all changed when one day she ran out of money and began camping in a field. The country was Turkey. The field was a new world; one without taps, toilets or light switches. Scorpions and snakes skulked under every rock, and wild boar roamed the forest next door. Within weeks the dirt worked itself under her skin. Atulya knew she was never going back to her job. But how long can you survive without a salary, and the rudiments of civilisation? This is Atulya’s true story of finding the ancient soul of her land, and the incredible relationship she developed with it. A one-woman adventure into the Turkish wild, where trees whisper, nights haunt, and wild women prowl. "I have loved all of The Mud Series, but this now stands as my favourite...This book has me walking through the world with all my senses opened." Emma Blas, Phoenix Rises Poetry. "Engaging and thought-provoking. The act of reading this seemed to affect me on a level beyond the words," Claire Raciborska, author of Growing Wild and Free.