Big Book of Self-Reliant Living (eBook)

Advice And Information On Just About Everything You Need To Know To Live On Planet Earth

Walter Szykitka (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009 | 2., Second Edition
640 Seiten
Lyons Press (Verlag)
978-1-4617-4672-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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-sufficiencyfrom 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 sea, and in the city; plant, buy farmland; grow plants indoors and out; read architect's drawings; care for household pets; repair clothing; hunt, trap, and fish; repair a screen or leaking faucet; butcher and store big-game kill; relieve allergy symptoms; control insects; stay safe during storms and floods; can and freeze fruits and vegetables; take your own blood pressure; and much, much more!Praise for a previous 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

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 1-4617-4672-8 / 1461746728
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4617-4672-0 / 9781461746720