Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance Paperback - 1999
by Storey, John
- New
Just in time for the millennial back-to-basics movement--more than 150 experts share their knowledge and experience in this ultimate guide to living a more self-sufficient, satisfying life. 1,200 2-color illustrations.
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Details
- Title Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance
- Author Storey, John
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 576
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Storey Publishing, North Adams, MA
- Date 1999-09-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ00NJZA_ns
- ISBN 9781580172028 / 1580172024
- Weight 3.44 lbs (1.56 kg)
- Dimensions 10.87 x 8.53 x 1.49 in (27.61 x 21.67 x 3.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Country life, Home economics, Rural
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99035895
- Dewey Decimal Code 640.917
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From the rear cover
Whether it's making ice cream or sharpening an ax, cleaning a chimney or growing raspberries, you'll learn how to do it in this treasury of time-honored country wisdom. Illustrated step-by-step instructions will show you how to milk a cow, tap a maple tree, clean a fish, lead a horse, and build the best chicken coop. You'll find out how to heat your house with wood or by the sun and how to de-skunk a country dog. You'll learn the proper way to put in a water system, rewire an old house, stack a cord of wood, and grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs.
Yearning for a more self-reliant life? You'll find the answers in Storey's Basic Country Skills.
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Citations
- Beyond the Cover Author Interv, 12/01/1999, Page 5