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The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living. Advice and Information on Just About Everything You Need to Know to Live on Planet Earth.
Walter . Ed(S): Szykitka
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Description for The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living. Advice and Information on Just About Everything You Need to Know to Live on Planet Earth.
Paperback. Rural homesteaders and urban apartment-dwellers alike will find a mother lode of practical information packed into this completely revised and updated edition of the ultimate how-to handbook for all generations. Editor(s): Szykitka, Walter. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: VSZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1328.
Rural homesteaders and urban apartment-dwellers alike will find a mother lode of practical information packed into this completely revised and updated edition of the ultimate how-to handbook for all generations. A selective compendium of public-domain documents, it brings together in one volume a wealth of knowledge and useful instruction on just about every imaginable aspect of self-sufficiency—from building a dwelling and growing food to raising children, using tools of all kinds, and, yes, getting more mileage out of your car. Readers will learn how to: build a greenhouse; administer first aid; stock an emergency shelter; survive in the wilderness, at ... Read more
Rural homesteaders and urban apartment-dwellers alike will find a mother lode of practical information packed into this completely revised and updated edition of the ultimate how-to handbook for all generations. A selective compendium of public-domain documents, it brings together in one volume a wealth of knowledge and useful instruction on just about every imaginable aspect of self-sufficiency—from building a dwelling and growing food to raising children, using tools of all kinds, and, yes, getting more mileage out of your car. Readers will learn how to: build a greenhouse; administer first aid; stock an emergency shelter; survive in the wilderness, at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9781599215662
SKU
V9781599215662
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Walter . Ed(S): Szykitka
Walter Szykitka edited the popular original edition of The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living in 1974 under the title Public Works, and he is the editor of two other how-to reference books.
Reviews for The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living. Advice and Information on Just About Everything You Need to Know to Live on Planet Earth.
Praise for the first edition:"How we have survived this long without [this book] I don't know. The concept is brilliant and simple. . . . If we had lived in a rural community a century ago, much of the knowledge gathered here would have been in our bones."
Harper's "It has the hand-hewn feel of the old Whole Earth ... Read more
Harper's "It has the hand-hewn feel of the old Whole Earth ... Read more