About this title: The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. This new edition includes 150 new full ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DK ADULT
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780789493323ISBN:0789493322
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 312 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This is a fascinating book on how to live a self-sufficient life--doing just about everything one would need to do to survive without the benefits of the outside world.
It is a romantic picture, though not likely as simple as one would hope. This appears to be a good introduction to many topics, but would require much more extensive reading and further resources to make a real go of it."
"John Seymour first published this in 1976. Though it has gone through a couple revisions since, I would argue Seymour was way ahead of his time (i.e. encouraging folks to eschew plastic as much as possible so as to not feed the oil baron coffers). The book was almost like an encyclopedia, a reference for just about anything you might want to try. From raising the majority of your own food to skinning a rabbit and making beer, this book has an opinion about most of it. The illustrations were outstanding and enhanced the text greatly (and in this regard is better than my true DIY favorite, Carla Emory's Encyclopedia of Country Living)."
"I didn't actually read this....I thumbed through it. But it is a DARN cool book...if you are going to live on some acreage and raise animals, etc. I did enjoy the garden info, and will, in the future find the preservation of food section useful. But...how to skin a rabbit or make wine or take care of cows...just didn't really fit into my interest categories right NOW."
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