Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
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ew lease on life: The story of a city family who quit the rat race and moved to a ranch in Wyoming First edition signed and inscribed by author. Very rare! “At the age of 46” writes Otis Carney, “I finally made the break. Said goodbye to my secretary, put my city suits in mothballs, and quit the big game. My wife, Teddy, and I loaded our three sons in the station wagon; we drove away from a Lotusland existence in Beverly Hills, California, and plowed into a snowbank known as Cora, Wyoming, population three. We bought a kettle ranch here, in the furthest area in the US from a railroad, a wilderness with less than one inhabitant per square mile. “Good God!” said our friends are you nuts? Who will talk to you up there? What will you do? “‘Maybe’ I said ‘I’ll get a new lease on life.’ And it became just that explaining our story in this book.” Nowadays, practically everybody seems fed up by the city rat race. People are drained by scramble, pressure, the high cost of staying alive. They’d love to chuck it and get out. But it’s not quite as easy as it sounds, says Otis Carney. Since boyhood, he had long for the peace and freedom of the land, the time to enjoy nature and grow in spirit. He and Teddy wanted the same experience for their kids. But how, they ask, did you throw out the good life? Could you risk checking your business contacts, your future? Could you and your kids make it on your own in a strange, hard land? New Lease on Life is the story of how the Carneys tried their own thing. They uprooted from the push-button life, settled first on a wild, beautiful ranch in Utah, Teddy learning to milk and cook on a woodstove, Otis and the boys finding the hard side of a cow. From here, they finally gambled on their own land in Wyoming. The boys matured into a kind of strength and freedom, they hadn’t known before. And Otis and Teddy, as he wrote his last major television series – a disaster about Wyoming – how they finally come here to stay. They had their - new lease on themselves!