Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills—the kind employed by our forefathers—and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an era before power saws and fast food restaurants and rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle.

Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead.

More than just practical advice, this is also a book for dreamers—even if you live in a city apartment you will find your imagination sparked, and there’s no reason why you can’t, for example, make a loom and weave a rag rug. Complete with tips for old-fashioned fun (square dancing calls, homemade toys, and kayaking tips), this may be the most thorough book on voluntary simplicity available. 2,000 color photos and 200 black-and-white illustrations.

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• Features heavyweight polyester and 6 side pouches
• Includes top carry handle and 2 side handles, padded shoulder straps and waist belt
• Hydration system compatible for 2 hydration bladder and PAL compatible webbing
• Dimensions are 20 x 18 x 7-Inch

The Tactical Back Pack has a large zippered clam-shell main compartment, providing a quick & easy access to your packed items. The main compartment also has an internal zippered pocket and a separate divided compartment for a hydration bladder (sold separately). The back pack has a tube port built in and retention straps for the hydration tube routing.Other features include: padded shoulder straps for comfort, waist & sternum straps to secure the back pack to your body. Two adjustable compression straps on each side of the back pack to adjust the main compartments size. Six external zippered pockets providing ample storage space for organizing items that you need frequent and quick access to.The front pockets and bottom of the back pack has PAL compatible webbing to make the Tactical Back Pack a modular system to attach other pouches and other accessories securely to the back pack.The Tactical Back Pack also has carry handle straps on the top and on both sides of the back pack.