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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)

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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. ( )
  mazirian | Sep 4, 2009 |
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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. ( )
  Paul_S | Dec 23, 2020 |
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. ( )
  mazirian | Sep 4, 2009 |
excellent and thorough definitely worth buying ( )
  tandem | Sep 2, 2008 |
Even though this book has been around a long time and is full of basic solid info.........it is still basic. ( )
  hellhound | Jun 26, 2008 |
Just a wonderful book for anyone considering becoming self-sufficient, on a large or small scale. ( )
1 vote AJBraithwaite | Mar 29, 2008 |
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