Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself Book

In this delightful addition to Tom Hodgkinson's much-loved series of guides for the free-spirited the author takes us on a leisurely tour of husbandry and self-sufficiency throughout the calendar year from chopping wood in January to mowing meadows in July and brewing beer in October. Drawing on the wisdom of an eclectic range of thinkers and writers - and on comic recountings of Tom's own frequently imperfect and frequently hilarious experiences - "Brave Old World" offers tips advice and above all hope. Why it asks shouldn't we return to the ideals of a pre-capitalist pre-Puritan pre-consumerist world of feasting dancing horse-riding wood-chopping fire-laying poultry-rearing bartering bread-baking and bee-keeping? From January to December "Brave Old World" charts the progress of a year in pursuit of the pleasures of the past taking seriously - though not without much incidental comedy - G.K. Chesterton's exhortation 'We must go back to freedom or forward to slavery'.Read More

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  • Waterstones

    A guide for the free-spirited, that takes us on a leisurely tour of husbandry and self-sufficiency throughout the calendar year, from chopping wood in January to mowing meadows in July and brewing beer in October. Drawing on the wisdom of an eclectic

  • Blackwell

    A guide to the ancient art of husbandry. It takes us on a modern tour of the ancient arts of everyday living: philosophy, husbandry and merriment. Brave Old World is Tom Hodgkinson's year-round guide to the ancient art of husbandry.

  • 0141030380
  • 9780141030388
  • Tom Hodgkinson
  • 5 January 2012
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
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