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

Hodgkinson, Tom

 
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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'.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Tom Hodgkinson is the founder and editor of The Idler and the author of How to be Idle, How to be Free and The Idle Parent. He lives in North Devon.

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9780141030388: Brave Old World: A Month-by-Month Guide to Husbandry, or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself

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ISBN 10:  0141030380 ISBN 13:  9780141030388
Casa editrice: Penguin, 2012
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