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Back in the Day: 101 Things Everyone Used to Know how to Do by Michael Powell

ferrisscottr's review against another edition

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3.0

Pretty much an instruction manual on how to do things that everyone knew how to do in the past but the skill has been almost forgotten.

things like...
Forge a sword
Throw a battleaxe
Make ice cream
Carve a canoe
Build a log cabin
Use an abacus
Blow Glass
Etc.
Etc.
Etc.

A fun book to page through a little at a time when the mood strikes, I enjoyed it.

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2.0

Most descriptions are short and vague. In order to perform the tasks in the book you would need to buy another book that has step by step instructions and diagrams.
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