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The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It
by: John Seymour

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 630
EAN: 9780789493323
ISBN: 0789493322
Label: DK ADULT
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: March 17, 2003
Publisher: DK ADULT
Sales Rank: 1799
Studio: DK ADULT

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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 color illustrations and a special section in which John Seymour the father of the back to basics movement explains the philosophy of self-sufficiency and its power to transform lives and create communities. More relevant than ever in our high-tech world, The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the ultimate practical guide for realists and dreamers alike.

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- Excellent, informative and well-written - must have for every library
I bought this book for my fiance and he can't put it down. We are both very interested in living a self-sufficient lifestyle and as well-read as he is, he is continually impressed with the breadth and depth of this book!

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- Good book, but old techniques
Book is an easy resource for self sufficiency, however the techniques are a bit dated. Recommended for traditional gardening techniques and farming, canning etc.

Brian Housewert

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- Self-sufficient life
This is an incredible and unique book.

The opening chapters that show what you can do with various sized acreages is wonderful. The diagram showing what you can do on a single acre is outstanding.

Another thing I love about this book is that it favors the use of hand tools over the gas-guzzling counterparts. The section on making hay the old-fashioned way stands out in particular.

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- A good general manual for the beginner
The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It by John Seymour, Deirdre Headon contains many of the basics needed before one considers the notion of starting out on that journey to self-sufficiency.
It is, indeed, written with a rather cycloptic view of the world, but that is, as always, the author's privilege.
The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It doesn't go into as much depth, subject by subject, as does the TODAY'S HOMESTEAD series of books,Today's Homestead: Volume I, however, it does give one much to consider, and whets the appetite to know more.
All in all, it makes a good addition to the homestead library.

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