Genuinely, this book has enriched my life. This sounds very strong language, but a glimpse of how achieveable a degree of self sufficiency can be is a great stress-buster and very uplifting.
Practical, useful, full of ideas and inspiration, this book will motivate anyone to take a step or two towards self sufficiency, wherever they live.
Every chapter is interesting, well written, and well illustrated. The craft skills are useful and practical and whilst a compost-toilet is not quite the thing for our garden in the suburbs, all the practical projects are well described and amply illustrated.
A great reference book, a comfort on a cold winter's night, I recommend it to anyone.
What 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!
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This is an incredibly useful guide if you want to be more self-sufficient. It has sections on generating your own power, recycling, organic gardening, animal husbandry, brewing and preserving produce. The layout of the book is very clean-looking with simple, clear diagrams. I have looked at a number of different books on self-sufficiency and this is definitely one of the best.
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This is an incredibly useful guide if you want to be more self-sufficient. It has sections on generating your own power, recycling, organic gardening, animal husbandry, brewing and preserving produce. The layout of the book is very clean-looking with simple, clear diagrams. I have looked at a number of different books on self-sufficiency and this is definitely one of the best.
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Primitive Living, Self-Sufficiency, and Survival Skills: A Field Guide to Primitive Living SkillsNot just a good reference book for learning the practicalities of some primitive skills, but also an interesting guide to the mind-set and psychology that makes this such an interesting subject - I especially liked the ¨less is more¨ approach to equipment and the ingenious use of all available resourses to meet survival skills for the 21st century showing you don't need to become a ¨kit junkie¨
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I found this book extremely superficial. With the minimum of research, anyone could have written this book. Although it is perhaps unfair to expect too much depth in such a small book, the number of times that any sort of the imparting of any sort of useful information is skated over with a bland statement referring the reader to an expert are legion.
It almost prompts me to set about writing a book of my own with useful and practical information in it.
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Like some of the other reviewers I found this book so full of practical information that it made me want to go out and do it - which is what I am in fact starting to do. The writing is not theoretical - you get the feeling that Mr Seymour has actually done everything and knows it works. Instructions are very clear and well supported with illustrations. Whether you are out to totally change your lifestyle and do a 'Goodlife' or just want to get a little more control over your own life through making your own cheese (A real Stilton can be made!), it is an essential introduction.
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This book contains nothing new (just reguritated safe diving practices which you should already know) unless you have never dived! in which case there are a ton on better books that you should be reading. happy diving
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