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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:06 pm
by Muddypause
Wombat wrote:Any of mine that catch your interest Stew?
All of 'em, Nev!
I s'pose the technical stuff is mainly my bag - titles about things like appropriate technology, making tools, woodworking, non-flush toilets...
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:03 pm
by Magpie
Out of the molasses jug - Cindy Davis & Elizabeth Mabe (Natural food recipes, gareding charts, grandfather tales, herb lorehints on getting by, and much more) 1974
Cloudburst - a handbook of rural skills and technology - Vic Marks (editor) 1973
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:07 am
by Wombat
Mmmmmmm...........Cloudburst!
I found those at our local librabry and photcopied some stuff but have never seen them for sale.
Nev
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:31 am
by Millymollymandy
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:15 am
by pskipper
The Forgotten Arts - John Seymour
Forgotten Household Crafts - John Seymour
Both are rather general, giving enough of the concept behing the technique for you to be able to work it out, rather than step by step instructions.
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:59 am
by Wombat
Yep PKS they are both good ones.
In a similar vein - The Complete Practcal Book of Country Crafts - Jack Hill.
Nev
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 9:16 am
by Milims
Victory Cook Book - Nostalgic food and facts from 1940 - 1945 - Marguerite Patten
Northern Cook Book - Eleanor A Ellis - I picked this up at our local second hand book shop in a hurry, thinkning it was about Northumbrian cooking - it turned out to be about Canadian cookery so I now have a recipe for roasting polalr bears and breaded beaver tails

but there are some other rather wonderful reipes for stuff I can buy at the local shop or grow in the garden or make from the store cupbaord!!!
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:25 pm
by Magpie
RE - Cloudburst - I got mine from
www.touchwoodbooks.co.nz/ They have a great 2nd hand section.
Must add "The Whole Earth Catalogue - NZ edition" Vols 1 and 2. If you can get a hold of these, or the US ones, go for it!
PS - How on earth do you do quotes on here??!!
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 5:22 am
by Millymollymandy
The quote button is in the top right hand corner of each person's posting. Click on that and you'll go into a 'post a reply' screen. Type your reply but make sure you type outside of the 'Quote' codes that you will see on the screen in front of you, or you posting will get lost inside the other person's quote!
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:10 pm
by Magpie
Thanks MMM - I was trying to do it from in the reply page...

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:29 am
by Millymollymandy
Well you can do it that way too, but it gets a lot more complicated!
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:48 am
by wulf
How about books that won't teach you anything about how but still make you think?
One of my favourite novels is Earth Abides by George R Stewart. A disease ravages the globe and kills almost everyone; the survivors go from subsisting on the leftovers like tinned goods in the supermarket, to trying to keep alive knowledge of self-sufficiency, to....
I'll say no more, to try and avoid spoilers, but if you enjoy thought-provoking fiction, this is a good one to read.
Wulf
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:19 am
by Wombat
Yep, Wulf!
Alas Babylon! - Pat Frank
No blade of Grass - John Christopher
The Sixth Winter
Down to a Sunless Sea
Anything by Paul Erdman or John Wyndam
A number of novels from Robert Heinlein but Farnhams Freehold is a good start
Atlas Shugged - Ayn Rand (A classic of survivalist literature and like a lot of "classics" I found it overly long and pretty tedious)
Lucifers Hammer - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
I used to read almost nothing else but this sort of literature back in the eighties. My favourites would be Alas Babylon and Lucifers Hammer. I am sure that there is some more recent stuff around though in a similar vein.
Believe it or not I actually happen to have an extra copy of Alas Babylon if anybody wants to have a go at it.
Nev
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:32 am
by contadino
Oh well, you can't leave out Lord of the Flies by William Golding then. Squeal Piggy Squeal...or was that Deliverance?
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:38 am
by Wombat
Ummmmmm.............the pig was a central theme....................but I think that was Deliverance!
