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Yes, you can STILL buy
a copy of
Living on the Earth
Right Now!
Living on the Earth is back in print, and I have copies of the new 4th edition available! I also have brand new copies of the 30th anniversary edition, and I would be happy to inscribe either book for you. The 4th edition copies are $18.95 and the 30th anniversary copies are marked down to $15.
Shipping by priority
mail with delivery confirmation within the USA is $4.30. International
Priority Mail is $9 to most places, and $7 to Canada. I can also ship
by UPS or Fedex within the USA or worldwide. You can pay me through my
Paypal
*
(*SEE WARNING BELOW)
account, ataction@flex.com.
Or you can send me a cashier's check or money order to me at
P.O. Box 961, Pahoa HI 96778 USA. Please let me know to whom it will be inscribed and where to send it.
I've also got pristine first edition copies of some of my early books (see on the right column of this page), and my 2 CDs, one original folk songs with open tuned guitar, and one Hawaiian songs, mostly in slack key, plus gorgeous, generously sized matted art prints, and organic cotton t-shirts.
IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING
PAYPAL:
IF YOU RECEIVE ANY EMAILS THAT APPEAR TO BE FROM PAYPAL, REQUESTING YOU
"UPDATE" YOUR INFORMATION ON FILE, DO NOT COMPLY. INSTEAD, FORWARD
THE SUSPICIOUS EMAIL TO spoof@paypal.com. EVERY ONE OF THE EMAILS I'VE
RECEIVED OF THIS SORT WERE ACTUALLY FROM IDENTITY THIEVES!
Still in the making:
The Travel
Diary as
a CD-ROM
titled:
Living On
The Road:
Bohemia
At The
Millennium.
Yes. In a
completed
(through
December)
version, with
sound. No
long waits
to download
photos, plus
easier
navagation.
I'll be selling them
right here from this web site.
You can email me if you want to be on the list for the
first copies.
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"Behold the world
with compassion, NEWS Both
of my CDs, Music
From Living on the Earth and
Living in Hawaii
Style have been reviewed by Gerald
Van Waes, radio producer and webmaster for radioshow "PVHF"
(Psyche Van Het Folk), Radio Centraal, Antwerp (Belgium) and
writer for Kindamuzik. My first CD, Music From Living on the Earth, has been chosen as an All Media Guide Album Pick on www.allmusic.com, and rated 4.5 stars out of a possible 5. In
September 2005, both of my CDs, Music
From Living on the Earth and
Living
in Hawaii Style, were released
in Japan by EM Records in Osaka. In May 2005 a Korean language edition of Living on the Earth was released by BOBOS, a publisher in Korea. If you'd like to be notified by email when I have a new book published, a new CD released, a performance or tour planned, or have some one-of-a-kind art pieces for sale, please email me and I will add you to my mailing list. The 4th edition of Living on the Earth was published October 14, 2003, by Gibbs Smith Publisher. It's gorgeous, printed on the same cream-colored, textured recycled paper as the Harry Potter books, with chocolate-brown soy based ink. The smiling sun face on the cover is printed on gold foil, the smile debossed (opposite of embossed) into the foil! Also, I am working on a modern sequel to Living on the Earth, titled Still Living on the Earth: Back to the Land in the 21st Century. It will be a compendium of permaculture and sustainability information, plus more recipes, crafts, and other creative, life-affirming ways to spend your time. Whereas I collected the information for Living on the Earth mostly from friends living at Wheeler Ranch commune, this new book contains offerings from friends around the world, happily linked over the 'net. If you have an idea you'd like to share for the text of the book, please email me. To order
my books, CDs, art, or Alicia
Bay Laurel Recent History: On Wednesday, September 29, 2004, the legendary Jaime Lerner, architect and three times mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, the world's foremost environmentally friendly city, came to lecture at University of Hawaii Hilo as the guest of sociology professor Noelie Rodriguez, her husband Chris Yuen (planning director of Hawaii County), the County of Hawaii, the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council and the student Global Hope Club. I was fortunate enough to attend his talk (about 150 attended, including Mayor Harry Kim and his staff), and thrilled to share a meal afterward with him, Noelie and Chris.
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, the tie-dye page from Living on the Earth appeared in the New York Times Magazine, opening the Style section and a fashion article on high-end tie-dye fashions and other current revival trends from the '60's.
I was pleased to read in the article that the British fashion industry is protesting the Iraq war ("...Katharine Hamnett sent out the models at her fall runway show in T-shirts saying 'Stop War--Blair Out'; and nascent English designer Julian Roberts and his partner Sophie Cheung, shunned the catwalk and staged a John-and-Yoko-style love-in during London Fashion Week.") About me, they wrote: "As the Martha Stewart of the hippie age, Alicia Bay Laurel wrote the book on living in do-it-yourself harmony with Mother Nature. Her hand-illustrated 1970 publication, Living on the Earth (a page of which opens this section), offered practical back-to-nature information on everything from mixing your own herbal skin-care products and natural childbirth--'Eat some of the placenta,' Laurel advised--to Zen and the art of moccasin maintenance. Though Laurel has gone on to have many lives, including wedding coordinator and Hawaiian folk singer, Living on the Earth was reissued for the millennium, with more upscale recipes for things like make-your-own soap." It's not the first time I've been compared to Martha Stewart, and no shame there. Whatever else you may say about her, Martha Stewart brought self-reliance, organic gardening, craft-making from recycled stuff, folk art, goat cheese and wabi-sabi to mainstream media. I'm in distinguished company as one of the thirty Northern California writers Jonah Raskin has chosen as subjects for his new book Natives, Newcomers, Exiles, Fugitives (Running Wolf Press, 2003.) Read all about it and order a copy at www.toyonbooks.com/RunningWolf/NativesNewcomers.html
Here I am, performing original songs with Hawaiian bassist-singer Bobo Brown at the Big Island Slack Key Guitar Festival, in July 21, 2002, in Hilo, Hawaii. Bobo's family includes four generations of musicians and dancers famous in Hilo, Hawaii. I was the only woman guitar player who headlined in that festival. I am wearing a "holo-mu'u," a vintage gown circa 1950 that combines the short sleeves of the mu'umu'u with the fitted waistline of the holoku. I made the white orchid hair ornament myself. The print is yellow and red orchids and white clouds on a blue back ground. The stage was decorated with over 2000 tropical flowers! The lineup included Ledward Kaapana, Cyril Pahinui, Dennis Kamakahi, John Keawe, Ozzie Kotani, Ken Emerson with Darlene Ahuna, Manny Varize and his son, Ira, with violinist Tony Selvage, Omi de Jesus, the band Kohala, and Joe and Janice Marquand. Many thanks to Gay Tolar, the festival director, and to the East Hawaii Cultural Center, which has sponsored the event since 1989!
I met the legendary Ledward Ka'apana by taking his slack key guitar workshop at the East Hawaii Cultural Center in Hilo on June 8, 2002. He played two of my songs with me. What an honor! There's a bio of Led on the Dancing Cat Records website.
Wonderful fun playing a jazz set on Black and White Night, November 8, 2002, an annual festival in downtown Hilo. My assignment was at the Hawaii Chamber of Commerce. Celebrants in black and white clothing thronged the streets, and musicans blew jazz in the stores, at the bus station, at the East Hawaii Cultural Center. Later, the quintet Jazz Mele swung for the dancers at Cronies Bar. I love this town. Living In Hawaii Style is in the rotation on KAPA radio in Hawaii, as well as other Hawaiian radio stations in Hawaii and on the internet, and on some Hawaiian music radio programs originating in other states! All the lyrics from this CD are now posted on its page! The Hippie Museum Returns! A group of folks
interested in celebrating bohemian culture (I am one) are collaborating
on a web site. New members are welcome (we have an email discussion
group, inwhich we plan what goes on the site.) To see the site,
please click on the graphic below.
Check out the Museum page displaying the patchwork quilt that I made between 1967 and 1974 Read an interview with me by John Burnett in the January 2002 Hawaii Island Journal, the Big Island's alternative newspaper, AND an interview by Alan McNarie in the January 23, 2002 Hawaii Tribune-Herald. Click here and scroll to the end of the page. By popular demand: I
would be so grateful if you would equip yourself and others
with groovy ABL goodies, from the Gallery Section of this site:
five
fabulous 16"x20" art prints, twoCDs, a poster, Hawaian
birthday cards, and an organic
cotton T-shirt. Plus the new 4th
edition of Living on the Earth!
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 Alicia Bay Laurel Artist, Author, Vocalist/Guitarist, Songwriter, Storyteller (hiker, utopian dreamer, health food consumer, gong collector, email addict, rainforest gardener, jazz buff, inner spirit listener, night owl, ethnic music fan, friendship tycoon, road warrior, housewife, herbology student, florist, amateur botanist, altar builder, free spirit.)
Living On The Earth, 30th Anniversary Edition (Villard Books/Random House, 2000) Living
On The Earth, 4th Edition
Please see the column on the left for information about ordering the 4th edition or the 30th anniversary edition. A very limited number of signed, mint-condition 1971 Vintage edition copies are available at $100 each (plus postage and handling) by emailing me directly
Earth Time
(Random House, 1972)
Happy
Day! Cried the Rainbow Lady, Full of Light (All, Harper
& Row, 1972,
Recordings:
I've also got birthday cards and refrigerator magnets (5"x5") made from the cover art of Living in Hawaii Style. The cards come with blue envelopes. Either item is $2 each, plus 50 cents postage and handling in the US (email me if you're anywhere else.)
Old Hawaiian
Christmas "Maluhia — Hawaiian for peace — is the theme of this 15-track compilation by a dozen artists...a yummy mixed plate by a gamut of performers who likely would not issue full-tilt holiday CDs." Wayne Harada, Honolulu Advertiser, December 8, 2001 |
I n 1970, at the age of twenty, Alicia Bay Laurel saw her first book, Living On The Earth, published by The Bookworks in Berkeley, sell out ten thousand copies in two weeks, and be selected for publication by Random House's president Bennett Cerf. It became a New York Times best-seller the following year, selling over 350,000 copies and translated into Japanese (in which language it has been in print 31 years.) The Gibbs Smith Fourth Edition of Living on the Earth is updated with current information on sustainable technology and preservation of the environment and recipes for natural foods basics unknown to Alicia in 1969, but all of the original drawings and most of the original text remain intact. The large format paperback is entirely written in Alicia's cursive script and illustrated on every page with her line drawings. Alicia's innovative illustration and book design styles were enthusiastically emulated in dozens of books including Anne Kent Rush's The Massage Book and Mollie Katzen's The Moosewood Cookbook. Her graphic design influence is still in evidence today, best demonstrated in the works of SARK (Succulent Wild Woman, Eat Mangos Naked), gift designer Laurel Burch, and the Shoebox Line of Hallmark Cards. |
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