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Embrace off-grid green living and imagine a more sustainable future with the original guide to self-sufficiency.
For over 40 years, John Seymour has inspired thousands to make more eco-friendly choices with his advice on living sustainably. The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency offers step-by-step instructions on everything from chopping trees to harnessing solar power; from growing fruit and vegetables, and preserving and pickling your harvest, to baking bread, brewing beer, and making cheese. Seymour shows you how to live off the land, running your own smallholding or homestead, and raising (and butchering) livestock.
In a world of mass production, intensive farming, and food miles, Seymour's words offer an alternative: a celebration of investing time, labour, and love into the things we need. While we won't all be able to move to the countryside, we can appreciate the need to eat food that has been grown ethically or create things we can cherish, using skills that have been handed down through generations. This bestselling classic is a balm for anyone who has ever sought solace away from the madness of modern life.
In this greatly admired work by John Seymour, first published in
1966, the celebrated advocate of self-sufficiency and of man's
living as close as possible to nature describes a journey of four
months spent on a British waterways hire cruiser - the 'Water
Willow' - in which he and his family travelled the water roads of
England, from Nottingham to Llangollen and then back by a devious
route across the Midlands to the Wash.
With a keen eye, a vivid pen and just about the right number of
prejudices about canals and their management, Seymour delves into
engineering history, offers fascinating descriptions of the people
and the boats he met en route (and the public houses he
patronized), and offers a still dependable guide for those who
dream of exploring England's relatively un-crowded and colourful
canal system.
By 1955 Sally and John Seymour had both seen a number of countries
but practically nothing of their own. As for some years they had
lived in a 34-ton Dutch sailing yacht they decided to dispel their
ignorance of England by travelling round as much of it as they had
time for in this vessel. Sailing Through England is an account of
that voyage. Setting out from Portsmouth the Seymours would
navigate the rivers and canals of East Anglia, the Midlands and the
North, penetrating as far inland as Leeds and Bradford, finally
crossing the country by a canal climbing right over the Pennine
chain to Liverpool and the Irish Sea. Their account is both a vivid
panorama of England's contrasts and a fascinating exploration of a
navigational challenge, and along the way a wealth of real-life
characters are encountered and brilliantly described on the page,
accompanied by Sally Seymour's delightful drawings.
Famous for his venturesome spirit and advocacy of a self-supporting
existence, John Seymour was thus a natural and sympathetic editor
for this remarkable book, first published in 1970, which offers the
authentic voice of a Romany gypsy (a scrap metal merchant and horse
trader) describing the life he has led and the longer lineage of
his family. Silvester Gordon Boswell speaks of himself as one of
the Boswells who have been on the road in England for generations,
traveling the length of the land in a manner largely unhindered.
The book documents the Boswell family tree and the nomadic Romany
lifestyle, and forms an invaluable document of a culture. Boswell
died in 1977 and his scrap metal yard was later turned into the
Gordon Boswell Romany Museum by his son.
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The Fat of the Land (Paperback, New edition)
John Seymour; Introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall; Illustrated by Sally Seymour; Foreword by Anne Seymour; Coloured by Alice Pattulo
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In the 1970s, John Seymour's book, The Complete Book of Self
Sufficiency was a huge, international best-seller, inspiring a new
generation to "down-shift" to a new way of life. The book has
remained in print ever since. But years earlier, Seymour had
written and published The Fat of the Land, telling of how he and
his family settled in Suffolk and began a life entirely separate
from the modern world. This was a seminal book, published the year
before Silent Spring, and offers a personal, practical and
optimistic vision of a less-mechanized and less polluting world,
one that works in harmony with nature, rather than against it. He
goes on to document their life and struggles on the land in
chapters on cows, pigs, vegetables and wild food in charming prose.
More than fifty years on, The Fat of the Land remains an important
and inspiring book, one which retains its power to make us think
carefully about our own lives. This new edition comes complete with
Sally Seymour's original illustrations, a foreword by Anne Seymour
and a new introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
This approach gives the practical skills used by outstanding communicators. Excellent communication is the basis of creating excellent results. NLP skills are proving invaluable for personal development and professional excellence in counselling, education and business.Introducing NLP includes:• How to create rapport with others• Influencing skills• Understanding and using body language• How to think about and achieve the results you want• The art of asking key questions• Effective meetings, negotiations and selling• Accelerated learning strategies.
John Seymour imagines a crash of the structure of Government in
Britain and gives a chilling but realistic description of how a
federation of East Anglia survives. The recent emergency procedures
following the collapse of the South East Asian economies suggest
that Seymour is fairly near the mark in his vivid description of
life in such circumstances.
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