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Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
Abigail Gehring, Hardcover$23.76
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The classic guide to self-sufficiency, with more than 200,000 copies sold–now fully updated
Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills–the kind employed by our forefathers–and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an era before power saws and fast-food restaurants and rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle.Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead.More than just practical advice, this is also a book for dreamers–even if you live in a city apartment, you will find your imagination sparked, and there’s no reason why you can’t, for example, make a loom and weave a rag rug. Complete with tips for old-fashioned fun (square dancing calls, homemade toys, and kayaking tips), this may be the most thorough book on voluntary simplicity available.Description
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Abigail Gehring
Published: 10/14/2014
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN: 9781629143699
Pages: 528
Weight: 3.55lbs
Size: 11.29h x 8.78w x 1.04d
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Weight | 3.55 lbs |
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Dimensions | 11.29 × 8.78 × 1.04 in |
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