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title: "Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Back to Basics Guides)"
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# Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Back to Basics Guides)

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- **What is this?** Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Back to Basics Guides)
- **How much does it cost?** £26.51 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

Over 200,000 copies sold—fully updated! Dye your own wool, raise chickens, make your own cheddar cheese, build a log cabin, and much much more. Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills—the kind employed by our forefathers—and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an era before power saws and fast-food restaurants and rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle. Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead. More than just practical advice, this is also a book for dreamers—even if you live in a city apartment, you will find your imagination sparked, and there’s no reason why you can’t, for example, make a loom and weave a rag rug. Complete with tips for old-fashioned fun (square dancing calls, homemade toys, and kayaking tips), this may be the most thorough book on voluntary simplicity available.

Review: Fantastic back to basic guide - Love this full of practical ideas and how to implement.
Review: Relevant - A young man liked the book so much, so I gave it to him.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 16,723 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 9 in Home Improvement Extensions & Renovation 18 in Urban Gardens 21 in Organic & Sustainable Gardening & Horticulture |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 5,081 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic back to basic guide
*by S***E on 9 April 2026*

Love this full of practical ideas and how to implement.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Relevant
*by B***T on 20 April 2021*

A young man liked the book so much, so I gave it to him.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by K***K on 17 October 2016*

Just what you need to get back to basics

## Frequently Bought Together

- Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Back to Basics Guides)
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- Homesteading: A Backyard Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More (Back to Basics Guides)

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*Last updated: 2026-06-13*