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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills

Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills

Gehring, Abigail

Hardcover

Series: Back to Basics Guides

General ReferenceGeneral Construction & RenovationSustainable Living

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1602392331
ISBN13: 9781602392335
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: Apr 17 2008
Pages: 456
Weight: 3.06
Height: 0.98 Width: 10.74 Depth: 8.78
Language: English
Over 1,500,000 copies sold--an international bestseller!

NATIONAL BESTSELLER!

#4 BALTIMORE SUN BESTSELLER

#7 AMAZON WEEKLY BESTSELLER

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.

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