ABOUT RICH

RICH ISRAEL was born in December 1945. The baby boomer generation officially began January 1, 1946, so Rich says, “I was sent ahead as a scout to prepare the way.”

Raised in a middle-class Jewish household in Sacramento, he spent his college years at the University of California, Davis, campus, where he initially studied engineering, then transferred to biological sciences because of his love for nature. After graduating, he worked for the entomology department at the university for a year, then dropped out and embarked on many of the adventures described in his writings.

​In the early 1970s, Rich coauthored what appears to be the first back-to-the-land book for his generation—a self-published guide titled Homesteaders Handbook. He went on to study natural medicine and worked in the natural foods industry for a dozen years. In 1991, he authored The Natural Pharmacy Product Guide, which remained on the Nutri-Books Top 10 List of Health Books for four months.
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Rich is currently working on Trippin’, the second book in his Hippie Adventurer series. He lives with his wife, Doris, in Boulder, Colorado.

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