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The Man Who Quit Money is an account of how one man learned to live, sanely and happily, without earning, receiving, or spending a single cent. Suelo doesn't pay taxes, or accept food stamps or welfare. He lives in caves in the Utah canyonlands, forages wild foods and gourmet discards. He no longer even carries an I.D. Yet he manages to amply fulfill not only the basic human needs - for shelter, food, and warmth - but, to an enviable degree, the universal desires for companionship, purpose, and spiritual engagement.

For Sig Hansen and his brothers, commercial fishing is as much a part of their Norwegian heritage as their names. Descendents of the Vikings who roamed and ruled the northern seas for centuries, the Hansens' connection to the sea stretches from Alaska to Seattle and all the way to Norway. And after 20 years as a skipper on the commercial fishing vessel the Northwestern - which was his father's before him - Sig has lived to tell the tales.

A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life through the stories of new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for - or create - a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.

Auf der wilden Beringsee fühlen sich Sig Hansen und seine beiden Brüder frei. Eine Freiheit, die ihren Preis hat, wie ihre packende Familiengeschichte verrät. Sig erzählt vom Leben seines Großvaters und Vater, von seinem entbehrungsreichen Kampf mit den Naturgewalten und der tiefen Sehnsucht nach der See. Spannende Innenansichten des rauen, gefahrenreichen Alltags der modernen Wikinger im nördlichsten Bundesstaat der USA, dokumentiert von New York Times Magazine-Reporter Marc Sundeen.