Brave Old World: A Practical Guide to Husbandry or the Fine Art of Looking After Yourself

About this book

Drawing on the wisdom of an eclectic range of thinkers and writers on medieval calendars and manorial records and as ever on Toms 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 shouldnt 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. Chestertons exhortation We must go back to freedom or forward to slavery.