Back to Basics : A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills

English

Series: Back to Basics Guides

ISBN: 1602392331

EAN: 9781602392335

Category: Reference / Personal & Practical Guides/Crafts & Hobbies / General/House & Home / General/House & Home / Sustainable Living/

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Release Date: 04/07/2008

Synopsis: Over 100,000 sold! Now newly revised and up to date, with over 2,000 color photographs and illustrations. 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 toBack to Basicsfor 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 inBack to Basicswill 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 theres no reason why you cant, 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. 2,000 color photos, 200 b/w illustrations.

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Back to Basics : A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Edition: 3

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 11.1 inches

Length: 8.8 inches

Weight: 48.89 oz

Pages: 464