Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
by Abigail R. Gehring
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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If I could just step out of my life tomorrow and onto my own homestead. This book brings back happy memories of childhood and I love it. I'd go Back to Basics right now and if I get the chance, I will. This book is a must have for anyone who wants access to everything they need to know to make it.
Wonderfully eclectic and informative, this is a book I grew up with and have continued to enjoy.
A great introduction and overview of the skills and tools of runnings one own home with an eye towards self-sufficiency.
Next to "The Art of Shen Ku" this is the book to survive on this planet. Amazing to say the least.
Un livre qui regroupe les méthodes pour faire "soi même" les choses, selon les méthodes employées aux États-Unis.
On y parle vraiment de tout, comment construire sa maison, ses outils, faire son beurre et fromage, préserver les aliments et cuisiner, décorer, jouer à la campagne...
Si vous vous êtes déjà demandé comment faire si les supermarchés et autres utilités modernes venaient à disparaitre, ou si vous avez dans la tête l'idée de devenir auto-suffisant, ce livre est rempli de bonnes méthodes.
Le niveau de détail semble suffisant pour se risquer à une mise en oeuvre.
On y parle vraiment de tout, comment construire sa maison, ses outils, faire son beurre et fromage, préserver les aliments et cuisiner, décorer, jouer à la campagne...
Si vous vous êtes déjà demandé comment faire si les supermarchés et autres utilités modernes venaient à disparaitre, ou si vous avez dans la tête l'idée de devenir auto-suffisant, ce livre est rempli de bonnes méthodes.
Le niveau de détail semble suffisant pour se risquer à une mise en oeuvre.
Aug 25, 2011French
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Abigail R. Gehring is the author or editor of more than a dozen books including Back to Basics, Homesteading, and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living. She lives with her husband, two kids, and Siberian husky in an 1800s farm-stead in southern Vermont.
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- Canonical title
- Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
- Original publication date
- 1981-07-01
- First words
- About This Book
Back to Basics is a book about the simple life. It is about old-fashioned craftsmanship, and old-fashioned food, and old-fashioned fun.
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- 806
- Popularity
- 34,181
- Reviews
- 5
- Rating
- (4.20)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 3
