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  Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself (Hardback) By (author) Tom Hodgkinson

  

  

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  Short Description for Brave Old WorldWhy 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, this book charts the progress of a year in pursuit of the pleasures of the past.
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  • Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
  • Published: 07 July 2011
  • Format: Hardback 304 pages
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  • Categories: Personal Development | Self-sufficiency
  • ISBN 13: 9780241143742 ISBN 10: 0241143748
  • Sales rank: 76,633

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• Drawing on the wisdom of an eclectic range of thinkers and writers, on medieval calendars and manorial records, and, as ever, on Tom's own honestly recounted and frequently imperfect attempts to travel the road to self-sufficiency, "Brave Old World" is designed to give us all hope. Why, he 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'.