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Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Back to Basics Guides) Hardcover – Illustrated, October 14, 2014 by Abigail Gehring

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[528 pages]

PUB: October 14, 2014

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Over 200,000 copies sold—fully updated! Dye your own wool, raise chickens, make your own cheddar cheese, build a log cabin, and much much more.

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.

Product details

  • Publisher : Skyhorse; 4th edition (October 14, 2014)
  • Language : English
  • Hardcover : 456 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 1629143693
  • ISBN-13 : 978-1629143699
  • Item Weight : 3.53 pounds
  • Dimensions : 8.5 x 1.1 x 11 inches

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