The ‘Whole Earth Catalog’ was published regularly from 1968 to 1972, but only intermittently thereafter. During its four years of regular publication, the Catalog earned a reputation, a following, and a National Book Award, the only time a catalog has been so honored.

Standing with one foot firmly in the rugged individualism and back-to-the-land movements of the Sixties counterculture and the other in the nascent global community made possible by the Internet, the ‘Whole Earth Catalog‘ offered an integrated, complex, challenging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive worldview.