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Title: The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book by Carla Emery ISBN: 1-57061-377-X Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (64 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The BEST Reference Book
Comment: With 65 reviews already written by the time I add this one, you know people are reading and enjoying this book! I gave a copy to all my friends interested in raising ANYTHING.
Carla's book is like sitting down with an old friend and listening to her time-tested advise. When I want a quick reference to something like raising chickens or tapping trees for syrup, I grab myself a cup of copy and realize that I will spend time giggling and contemplating life as I read her advise and the advise of people who write to her.
The newest edition includes internet information which is quite helpful in this 21st century. Hope you enjoy the book as much as we do here in Auberry.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best
Comment: "The Encyclopedia of Country Living" is an expansive volume of collected wisdom, techniques, recipes, and other information for living in the country. To a great extent it is a volume on self-sufficiency without harming the environment in any substantial way. The only assumption that seems to be made is that the land you purchase will have a house on it or you will have one built. Everything else, from buying the land, to what plants to plant, when to plant them, where to get them, how to grow them, and how to harvest them to what animals to raise, how to raise them, how to use them for food and dairy to how to deal with child birthing in the wilderness (where you may be alone when it happens), dealing with pollution, enriching your soil, and even worm farming. This is an exhaustive study in country living with very detailed and thorough sections on farming. In addition the author includes page after page of other sources of information, where to purchase things, catalogue sources, websites, and just about every other conceivable way to get the items mentioned in the text. If there was a way to take all the old-timers in the country, get them all together, draw out all the skills they have learned over the years and distill it into a book this is the book that you would create. "The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 9th Edition" is a very highly recommended read not only for those looking to move to the country after a lifetime in the city, but also for those who, like me, have that backyard garden and could use the extensive information presented here to make it even more successful and fun.
Rating: 2
Summary: A good book but...
Comment: Die hard Emery fans will not appreciate this, I know. And honesty seems to unappreciated. Carla's book has LOTS of good information in it. It is impossible not to like the writer. It also has some sermonizing in it, and sort of a journal of her travels (selling the book, going on TV, raising her kids and her divorce). That makes it a hard reference book to follow at times. If you want some information about animal raising or bread baking then do you want read about her marriage too? Not if you're in a hurry! I found her information to be useful, I just wish some of the extra had been edited out. Also this book is poorly published. The paper is a cheap quality, hard for such a heavy book. So I give her publishing and editing 1 star, her actual content 3 or 4 stars. I loved her actual writing style.
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Title: Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance by M. John Storey, Deborah Burns, Storey Books ISBN: 1580172024 Publisher: Storey Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Five Acres and Independence by Maurice G. Kains ISBN: 0486209741 Publisher: Dover Pubns List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills by Readers Digest ISBN: 0895779390 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Handy Farm Devices: And How to Make Them by Rolfe Cobleigh ISBN: 1558214321 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables by Mike Bubel, Nancy Bubel, Pam Art ISBN: 0882667033 Publisher: Storey Books Pub. Date: October, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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