For generations, nature lovers, writers, and sportsmen have found an escape from their day-to-day world in living closer to nature. Surely there is a shortcut to living off the grid, like Thoreau? Explaining where and how to build a cabin, biologist J. Wayne Fears offers an illustrated guide to doing most of it yourself, focusing on such styles as Adirondack, Alaskan, Appalachian, and the hunting/fishing lodge, not to mention the outhouse. If you're a city slicker, no worries, because Fears details every aspect of construction, lighting, heat, water, sanitation, security, and maintenance, and then tells you how to add more to your little getaway property.