Mark Newton

"Over the epochs she had thought she had seen everything. But nothing, not even those early days when she had to watch over her sister negotiate the furious eons of her fiery youth, compared to what she was now observing." Bang! And the universe is born. And in a thoroughly non-descript part of the cosmos, eight wanderers, including Gaia and her diminutive satellite sister Luna, are placed by the great creator. Then one day, Gaia announces that something has happened to her, something that she has called 'Life', and the two wanderers begin to study and curate and nurture this strange new phenomenon. What wonders they witness, and what strange new concepts they discover as the Life evolves and diversifies at a breakneck pace. Latterly, they observe the rise of a curious species of ape, the first emanation of Life to attain sentience and self-awareness. And as they follow and chart the rise of this ape to domination of the entire world, they become increasingly concerned about the behaviour of this 'wise' species, what it is doing to Gaia, and what might happen to them all as a result.

Gaia and Luna

Nate Evans

Amidst a recent surge of books, websites and blogs on how to create a laptop lifestyle of digital nomadism, self-christened "Escape Artists" Mark Newton and Nate Evans examine what it really means to be living off-grid and outside the 9-to-5 norm. Exploring the how, why, where and what regarding life without a permanent address, the authors reveal the realities of a neo-nomadic existence.

Mark Newton

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