Lost Lore: A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom, from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals
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Lost Lore: A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom, from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals

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Weight 1.398 kg
Dimensions 3.1 × 19.1 × 25.2 cm
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Hardback
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384
Publisher

Year Published

2009-9-25
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0550105212
About The Author

Una McGovern is a freelance editor and writer, with books on a wide range of subjects to her name. She spent many years making regular forays from Edinburgh to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, before a return to rural Devon brought with it the opportunity to develop an organic kitchen garden, complete with traditional breed chickens. She now lives with her partner in a small Dartmoor town.Paul Jenner is a writer and journalist specializing in lifestyle subjects. He lives with his partner, three horses, two dogs and two sheep in the foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees, where, when he´s not working, he enjoys hiking, riding, cycling, sailing, swimming, diving and snowboarding.
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An engaging introduction to traditional knowledge and forgotten wisdom
Table Of Content

: Health and Wellbeing: Using Natural First Aid: Using Natural Remedies: Preparing Antidotes to Poison: Curing Warts: Curing Drunkenness: Improving Digestion: Making Possets and Caudles: Living Longer: Caring for Hair: Caring for Skin: Caring for Teeth: Beautifying: Education and Knowledge: Using an abacus: Using logarithm tables: Using a slide rule: Imperial measurements: Converting decimal to pounds, shillings and pence: Using mnemonics: Using an almanac: Using codes and ciphers: Using a camera obscura: Socializing and Celebration: Predicting the sex of a baby: Celebrating births: Wooing and courting: Celebrating marriages: Mourning deaths: Observing etiquette: Dining: Making and taking tea: Celebrating with alcohol: Dancing: Celebrating the seasons: Celebrating a traditional Christmas: Letter writing: Writing by hand: Household: Living thriftily: Laying a fire: Cooking with a range: Choosing produce: Making the most of meat: Preserving by curing, smoking and salting: Preserving by drying: Preserving by pickling: Preserving by freezing and bottling: Storing vegetables, fruit and wine: Storing clothes: Repairing clothes: Dyeing: Laundering: Cleaning: Polishing furniture: Eradicating unpleasant household odours: Soap making: Eradicating pests and vermin: Gardening: Starting a car: Superstitions: Outdoor Life: Weather forecasting: Telling the time: Working with the moon and tides: Navigating by nature: Navigating using traditional maritime instruments: Navigating using a map and compass: Understanding longitude and latitude: Seafaring: Raft-making: Foraging for wild food: Mushrooming: Cooking alfresco: Making fire without matches: Finding water: Measuring ice: Identifying plants: Identifying trees: Tracking animals: Identifying birds: Signalling with semaphore: Signalling with Morse code: Signalling with smoke or fire: Signalling with naval flags: Surviving in the wilderness: Sheltering: Making outdoor equipment: Choosing and using wood: Counting sheep: Removing stones from horses' hooves: How to choose livestock and horses: Sharpening knives

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