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Slow Tech: The perfect antidote to today's digital world
By (author) Peter Ginn
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Forge • Carve • Weave • Mould • Ignite, Highly readable and hugely practical this book is either armchair reading or a valuable guide to getting your hands dirty and creating something useful as you discover the art of slow technology. Featuring topics such as building bread ovens, making clay pots in a bonfire, felling and processing trees, cooking on open fires, blacksmithing, beer making, wattle and daubing, this book is a combination of the dangerous book for boys and a practical manual of experimental archaeology and historical research., Author: Peter Ginn is an archaeologist and historian who graduated from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London and has a particular interest in experimental archaeology. His research interests include Egyptology, field archaeology and primitive technologies, and he specialises in 19th-century farming practice. Peter is best known for his BBC TV appearances in series such as Tales from the Green Valley, Victorian Farm, Secrets of the Castle and A Tudor Feast at Christmas. Peter now lives in Somerset in an amazing Victorian property that he is renovating.
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Publisher | Haynes Publishing Group
Published date | 11 Nov 2019
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 160
Dimensions | 270 x 210 x 15mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 745g
ISBN | 978-1-7852-1616-9
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BISAC | crafts & hobbies / general
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