Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills
- ISBN-10
- 0895770865
- ISBN-13
- 9780895770868
- Series
- Back to Basics
- Category
- Do-it-yourself work
- Pages
- 456
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Authors
- Reader's Digest, Robert Dolezal, Of Readers Digest Editors
Description
With so many urban and suburban dwellers moving toward simplifying their lives, Reader's Digest has updated its popular Back to Basics series to provide the ultimate how-to book. It's packed with hundreds of projects and illustrated step-by-step sequences to help you learn to live more self-sufficiently, with sections on shelter, alternative energy sources, growing and preserving food, home crafts, and even recreation. Includes over 2,000 photos, diagrams and drawings.
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