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I want to share an extraordinary story, which has been told before: but I don't think it's quite well known, & I think it's absolutely amazing, a fantastic story of survival, endurance, wilderness, a family lost in a hidden world, on perhaps, earth's last wilderness...1/x
...A story of human re-wilding, religion, loss and hope.
But first, a few tantalising excerpts: "Karp fought a long and losing battle with himself to keep all this modernity at bay. When they first got to know the[m], the family would accept only a single gift-salt."
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![...A story of human re-wilding, religion, loss and hope.But first, a few tantalising excerpts: "Karp fought a long and losing battle with himself to keep all this modernity at bay. When they first got to know the[m], the family would accept only a single gift-salt."2/x](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkDImdNXcAAxu8L.png "...A story of human re-wilding, religion, loss and hope.But first, a few tantalising excerpts: \"Karp fought a long and losing battle with himself to keep all this modernity at bay. When they first got to know the[m], the family would accept only a single gift-salt.\"2/x")
But first, a few tantalising excerpts: "Karp fought a long and losing battle with himself to keep all this modernity at bay. When they first got to know the[m], the family would accept only a single gift-salt."
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(Living without it for four decades, Karp said, had been “true torture.”)
"[...] that year she died of starvation. The rest of the family were saved by what they regarded as a miracle:
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"[...] that year she died of starvation. The rest of the family were saved by what they regarded as a miracle:
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...a single grain of rye sprouted in their pea patch; put up a fence around the shoot and guarded it zealously night and day to keep off mice and squirrels. At harvest time, the solitary spike yielded 18 grains, and from this they painstakingly rebuilt their rye crop."
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I do not remember by the way how i came across this story first time, but later on I found more on and I will give you my source for this thread later on, for a complete picture! And more details of course!
