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Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills


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Comments from our editors:
A book about the simple life, about old-fashioned ways of doing things, and old-fashioned craftsmanship, and old-fashioned food, and old-fashioned fun.

At its heart BACK TO BASICS is a how-to book packed with hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, charts, tables, diagrams, and illustrations to help you and your family reestablish control over your day-to-day lives.

An added feature, "Sources and resources," lists suggestions for further reading plus names of suppliers of hard-to-find equipment.

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