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SF: Alternatives Foundation, 1972. First edition. 4to. Wrps., 239pp. Illustrated throughout. Contains an extensive collection of interviews conducted by Richard Fairfield during his travels with photographer Consuelo Sandoval to approximately forty alternative communities throughout England, Wales, Scotland, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, and Denmark.
Includes conversations with members of the Selene Community in Wales (set up in 1965 by Tony Kelly, Betty Kelly and Pat Blackmore); the Hapt Tribe in Bournemouth; the Eel Pie Island Community on the River Thames (along with Wavy Gravy, who happened to be visiting at the time); Christopher Hills and the human potential community at Centre House in Kensington; the socialist commune at Blackheath (inspired by Berlin's Kommune 2); Findhorn in Scotland (established by Peter Caddy and his wife Eileen on a caravan site in 1962); Jack Henry Moore; Communaute De La Poudriere in Belgium; the "Community of Lovers" in the French Alps; Commune Niederglatt in Switzerland; Iriscop in Germany and their music group, Ms. Beastley, along with early members of the Krautrock movement, Xhol (formerly known as Soul Caravan), another "band-commune of older and more experienced and more experimental musicians"; Kommune 1 and Kommune 2 in Berlin; the Morannon Group in Amsterdam; the Dutch Kabouters; the Ko-Koo commune and Sannemølle collective in Copenhagen; and more, most of them accompanied by statements written by the communes themselves. The Commune Movement in England's first Secretary, Sarah Eno (then married to Brian Eno), is listed as a contact on the back cover (the Movement was run from a vegetarian restaurant in Cambridge).
Circular mark to upper wrapper from old price label removal; wrappers slightly rubbed and lightly marked; o/w Very Good.
