The Last Whole Earth Catalog : access to tools

by Stewart Brand

Paperback, 1971

Status

Available

Call number

670/.21/6

Publication

Sixth Printing, October 1971, Deven Lithographers, Long Island City, NY

User reviews

LibraryThing member MissJessie

Gosh, what a flash from the past. I spent many an hour in the early days reading from this book, randomly picking pages and carrying on until I got tired out.

I don't necessarily remember doing many of things in the book, but it certainly made all of us "back in the day" want to go and change the

world, a little at a time.

Did we? It's hard to know.

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LibraryThing member bobshackleton

One of the three or four most important books in my life. I own several copies of several editions. If we survive and prosper as a species for more than a millenium, people will remember this book as a critical contribution to that survival.

LibraryThing member mykl-s

-before the internet, before Google, this is where we went to learn about all the important things
-I owned and read and reread many sections of several editions
-great fun, useful, far-reaching
-thankfully, not the last one either

LibraryThing member Sylak

This was it,
the place you came to find out how to do everything from making North American Indian moccasins, to keeping your Volkswagen alive! All you had to do was send off your cheque to the address provided and wait a week or two for your items to arrive by post, from one of the many companies

advertising their products in the WEC (if you lived in the U.S.), or a few months wait (for surface mail to the U.K.).

This issue also includes:

Some of a hand written letter by Ken Kesey.
a five page article on the WEC sponsored 'Hunger Show' game 'Lifeboat Earth'.
a reprint from ALLOY (Spring 1969) of the four day event near La Luz, New Mexico (Thursday March 20th - 23rd).
as well as articles ranging from home birth and the art of breastfeeding, to death and dying.

n.b.
The Last Whole Earth Catalog combines both the CATALOG and the SUPPLEMENT (previously sold separately) into one volume for the first time.

The Last Whole Earth Catalog was later expanded over two volumes (making this one in essence Vol.I) with the introduction of The Whole Earth Epilog (sold seperately) acting as Volume II, and starting from pg. 449 where the LWEC leaves off.

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