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Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (eBook)

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Various Retailers have Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (eBook) on sale for $1.99.

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  • Over 200,000 copies sold - fully updated! Dye your own wool, raise chickens, make your own cheddar cheese, build a log cabin, and much much more.
  • Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills - the kind employed by our forefathers - and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide.
  • Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an era before power saws and fast-food restaurants and rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle.
  • Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead.

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    • This deal is $25.96 off (93% savings) the listed retail price of $27.95. This also marks the lowest sale price this title has ever been reduced to. Offer valid for a limited time.
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    • This product has an impressive 4.7 out 5 star rating based on over 2,425 customer reviews on Amazon.
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Various Retailers have Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (eBook) on sale for $1.99.

Thanks to Deal Editor StrawMan86 for finding this deal.

Available from:
About this product:
  • Over 200,000 copies sold - fully updated! Dye your own wool, raise chickens, make your own cheddar cheese, build a log cabin, and much much more.
  • Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills - the kind employed by our forefathers - and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide.
  • Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an era before power saws and fast-food restaurants and rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle.
  • Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead.

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Written by RevOne | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This deal is $25.96 off (93% savings) the listed retail price of $27.95. This also marks the lowest sale price this title has ever been reduced to. Offer valid for a limited time.
  • Ratings & Reviews:
    • This product has an impressive 4.7 out 5 star rating based on over 2,425 customer reviews on Amazon.
  • About this store:

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TruthIsOK
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Seems these pages would be annoying to navigate and read on a Kindle. Also, the obvious irony of downloading a Kindle version of this book lol.
wintonas
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Does the book include nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, and computer hacking skills?
Dravack
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I have two copies of the back to basics book. This one and one from who knows how long ago. 10+ years old probably more. Anyway awesome book and I love the white bread recipe in it. Super simple and great tasting.

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Shock96
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If anyone is really interested in this, topic, checkout the Foxfire series.

I have a full set of the original printings and it is awesome.

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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank brollpixel

Just be aware that Amazon no rush credit doesn't apply to this book.
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TruthIsOK
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Quote from beavis9k :
Woooosh
If that's implying some sort of joke, it doesn't make much sense as hunting skills WOULD be plausible...
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ViciousMoth
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This sounds handy to have, but I know that I would just YouTube search for something in this when the time comes. Sad times.
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IshNET
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Quote from Dravack :
I have two copies of the back to basics book. This one and one from who knows how long ago. 10+ years old probably more. Anyway awesome book and I love the white bread recipe in it. Super simple and great tasting.
The book or the recipe? Kinda got lost in your explanation. ☺
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Techngro
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A handy book for when the Great Reset comes.
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have the original....really a fantastic book to just have

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Quote from WhatUpDawg :
Wait—it says "skills employed by our forefathers"…what could there possibly be to update??? Is there late breaking research into skills our forefathers used?🤔🤷
I think you'd be surprised.
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Boo! I wasn't paying attention and missed it :/
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