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Books : The Concise Guide to Self-sufficiency
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The Concise Guide to Self-sufficiency by: John Seymour List Price: £12.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £9.09 You Save: £3.90 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9781405320207 ISBN: 1405320206 Label: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: June 07, 2007 Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd Studio: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd Sales Rank: 7976 Related Items:
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 Rating: - An inspirationWhat a great book. I've been interested in some time in becoming a bit more self sufficient. This book is easy to read, interesting and full of great, practical advice. I've started making my own bread and there's so many other things that I am going to try. I've recommended this book to a lot of my friends. Excellent stuff. A book for every household! Rating: - This is the concise version of the late John Seymour's book`The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency'. `Make your dream of a self sufficient life a practical reality with this concise version of Seymour's classic guide. Featuring a comprehensive guide to planting and harvesting, it shows how to gather food from the wild and from the garden, and includes chapters on traditional crafts and skills, cutting waste and generating power.' A neat little book with smart dark green board covers holding 256 high quality pages, spilt over 7 main chapters:- (1) The Meaning of Self Sufficiency (2) Food from the Garden (3) Food from Nature (4) In the kitchen (5) Energy and Waste (6) Crafts and Skills (7) Things You Need to Know Read More: Rating: - A wonderful book for those wanting to try self-sufficiencyThis beautifully bounded book has to take pride of place on anyone's book shelf. The fantastic illustrated pictures bring the ideas to life and inspire the reader to dig up their back garden and replace their lawns with carrots and onions. Not only does the book focus on the gardening side, it has a fantastic section on animals, with clear guides on how to look after chickens, pigs, ducks and even bees! The contacts were fantastic and helped to develop the ideas portrayed throughout the book, and the easy to understand wood section shows clearly how to cut down a tree, and turn the wood into something fantastic, with a wonderful diagram of making a bowl on a lathe, and two pages on basketry. The recipies are fantastic, with simple ... Read More: Rating: - STOP! WAIT FOR THE REPRINT!!!DON'T BUY THIS VERSION!!!! There was a problem with the printing in China and the pages in the intro section, 24-25 are WRONG and don't follow... so wait for the reprint... Email Peter Jones at DK in London to find out when this will be... |
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