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Loading... The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The Classic Guide for Realists and Dreamers (original 1976; edition 2003)by John Seymour, Deirdre Headon (Editor), William Sutherland (Preface), E. E. Schumacher (Foreword)Wonderful book. Informative illustrations and wide coverage of topics. Most topics are covered only briefly and serve more as a starting point than a comprehensive guide. The writing style is personal and author is very opinionated on everything and not shy of sharing. I'd prefer the guides to be written more matter-of-factly. The book ends with an admission that living in a group of people who specialise is better. This doesn't detract from the message: you'll be happier if you do more things for yourself. This is the kind of book that was useful before the internet. I'm not sure a reprint was needed. A more clever approach would have been to pare it back and point readers to more exhaustive resources on the web. I like the approach taken by "Urban Homestead" in this regard, which is a broad survey of topics someone interested in self-sufficiency should know about with good leads for where to learn more. All that said, the book is still a good resource for providing broad overview of the topic. |
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