Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Back to Basics Guides) Hardcover – Illustrated, October 14, 2014

Excellent book! So much information it's crazy! Explained very well! Good pictures!! Must have for any property owner or person wishing to expanded their knowledge of very useful information that will help in no power situations, to off-grid living, to regular conventional living!

So much information in this book! Very pleased!

Back to Basics is a Great Book If you want to try new things such as building, crafts, planting flowers or gardening, or even starting a business with wood-working, selling homemade products.

Lots of info

This is more that Basics!! It's what they need to teach in schools, homes, and Farms. This would make life much more effective and affordable ,by teaching D.I.Y. and basic common sense techniques and skills. Wow! You all Rock! Summit this amazing book to schools worldwide, of course you can up date some techniques,and photos. But All books do this. Practically helps Man / Women and family stay together! By working together and building on they lives! YouGo!!!

Covers so many essentials when it comes to survival. Gardening, harvesting, building, etc. Good hardback book, I have it on my coffee table

I ordered the hardback book because, well, I wanted it. Lol It's FULL of everything I could ever want to know about "how to" and DIY on the subject of Back To Basics.It covers so many subjects I can't list them all here, with thorough details, instructions, illustrations, and pics. The subjects range from how to build your own house; beekeeping; raising meat, milk animals; soap making; quilting; and building furniture. So very interesting and helpful. Well written and presented, and easy to understand. Excellent instructional book for those who enjoy diy's or just simple/smart common sence knowledge on self-reliance. Brilliant.

I am pleasantly surprised by the volume of topics and the completeness of the instructions! What I did know was nice to see put in logical order, and what I didn't know, I could picture running through it step by step. The illustrations were very helpful and the recipes included all looked so good! The herbal remedies section was a decent intro but I was sad to see mullein left out of the cold remedies (nothing clears the lungs like mullein) and ear ache remedies (mullein flower). I still learned something from this section though. Overall a great read and a wonderful addition to the library.