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| The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency | 
 enlarge | Author: John Seymour
Creators: E. E. Schumacher, Deirdre Headon, William Sutherland
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: $32.06
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 11269
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised
Pages: 312
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0751364428
Dewey Decimal Number: 158
EAN: 9780751364422
ASIN: 0751364428
Publication Date: April 3, 2003
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Love this book August 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love this book. I doubt I'll ever slaughter a pig, shear a sheep, or make my own cowhide shoes but this book covers nearly everything - most of which is actually very useful to the average person - including a lot on gardening. He outlines how to be self-sufficient on the "one acre holding" and the "five acre holding" in pretty darn good detail.
I love this book: in a purely aspirational way June 30, 2008
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Sometimes, when I'm having a particularly bad day, I take down this book and open it up to the section on how to arrange your self-sufficient farm on 1 or 5 acres. "All we would need," I beg my husband, "is five acres! And then we could keep 2 cows! One to milk and one to eat." His response? "You're a vegetarian."
Ahem. Anyway.
I love this book. It's a DK book, so it's well written, with short chapters/descriptions based on specific subjects. This format makes it easy to flip through for fun, or to find the information that interests you. There are lots of illustrations, drawn in the style that appears on the cover. It includes information on growing crops, keeping (and butchering) animals, cooking, weaving, energy, water, building... basically everything you need to know to do everything you need on your own.
Is this a total fantasy for most people? Yes, of course. But this is still such a useful book, even if you just want to learn the information in it without using it. Most everything in here used to be passed down from parent to child, and it was what people needed to know to survive. It's all information that's being lost and forgotten. And who knows, maybe soon enough we'll need to remember it?
Probably the best book ever! March 13, 2008
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is the perfect book for people who want to gain more control over their lives and live healthily in cooperation with the environment. You'll learn everything from rearing cattle, growing onions, harness natural power and furnishing a dairy. The perfect starting point for a better life away from the grind. And the best thing is that it's written in a very introductory manner so you don't have to be raised on a farm to understand it.
It changed my life..
Satisfied Customer September 27, 2007
22 out of 26 found this review helpful
I haven't completed reading this book, however, the introduction, which provides the author's philosophy, is excellent. The chapters that I've read (about half the book) are giving me the information I hoped for. In that I am looking for a piece of rural land on which to build an organic, family farm, it will take some time to apply all that this book has to offer. I am confident it will.
Greatest Book Ever Written January 5, 2007
70 out of 81 found this review helpful
This is the greatest self-sufficiency book ever written. That's my opinion. :) I highly recommend this to anyone who wishes to become less impactful on the environment and to have more money in their pockets thanks to this style of living. You can do a little or a lot, depending on what you have to work with initially. This is an awesome, non-hippie/tree-hugger book about self-sufficiency free of all of the "lefty green" dogma you usually have to put up with. Great stuff!!!
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