Alexandra Redgrave
Autor(a) de The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide: How to Split Wood, Shuck an Oyster, and Master Other Simple Pleasures
Obras por Alexandra Redgrave
The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide: How to Split Wood, Shuck an Oyster, and Master Other Simple Pleasures (2015) 62 exemplares
The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
Membros
Críticas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Membros
- 63
- Popularidade
- #268,028
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 2
This book was exactly what I was hoping for: Short, 1-2 pages explaining how to do a variety of tasks around the home. It's broken up into sections for the Kitchen, Outdoors, Home, Gardening and Grooming. Some of it was obvious for me; as a gardener, there wasn't much in the Gardening section I didn't already know and as a born and bred Floridian, I already knew how to shuck an oyster, but on the flip side, I didn't have a clue about how to walk on snow or how to read the sky to find North (or South). Now I do.
Most everything in the book is practical and I'll be referring back to it over the years, although there are instructions for how to saber a Champagne bottle; a skill I'm going to choose to keep theoretical.… (mais)