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Home Comfort
de People of Total Loss Farm, The
- Usado
- fair
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Fair/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0841502285
- ISBN 13
- 9780841502284
- Librería
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Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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New York: Saturday Review Press BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Front Free Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Pocket, Sticker; Corners, Spine Bumped; Heavy Shelf Rub to Boards; Heavy Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Heavy Sticker Pull to Spine Area; Lightly Creased; Moderately Scuffed; Lightly Chipped; Heavy Fading Due to Sun Exposure (Spine); Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Stories and Scenes of Life on Total Loss Farm. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE PEOPLE OF TOTAL LOSS FARM: Hugh Beame, Pete Gould, Marty Jezer, Alicia Bay Laurel, Joan Marr, Raymond Mungo, Doug Parker, Robert Payne, Jeanne Pepper, Verandah Porche, Connie Silver, Ellen Snyder, Richard Wizansky, and others. EDITED BY: Richard Wizansky. WITH ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY: Josiah Adams, Vicki Goucher, Fritz Hewitt, Frank Kebbell, Sandra Marr, Andrew Mungo, David Mylin, Pip Rice, Bill Root, Harry Saxman, Peter Simon, Ron Squires. DESIGNED BY: Douglas Parker. CONTENTS: Richard - Preface; Richard - The Old Values; Ronnie - Before; Verandah and Richard - Skating Home from the Apocalypse; Ray - What This Community Needs: A Self-Indulgent Essay; Marty - How I Came Here; Pete - The Gander; Pete - How I Came to This Place; Pepper - Pepper's Vision; Richard - Who's in Charge; Verandah - The Making of a Culture Counter; Pete - Cheese-Making on the Small Farm; Pepper - The Butter Churn; Ellen -Bread; Pete - The Strudel; Richard - The Marquis' Good Foot; Ellen - How I Came to the Farm; Pete - Wood; Ray - I Had a Dream; Marty - Psychic Farming: The Organic Method; Richard - Blood Is Thicker Than Water; Hugh - Hugh Beame's Seasons; Marty - Total Loss Economics; Pepper - Lean Pickin's or Something for Nothing; Ellen - Living with the Animals; Fritz - Fritz and the Boys; Verandah - Max as Metaphor; Verandah - Give Me the Willies; Marty - Where Barf Barf Is; Bob - Hemorrhoids in Paradise; Ellen - The Well; Marty - Maple Sugaring: "Our Finest Hour"; Richard - A Nervous Appraisal; Richard - Queen Tillie's Needle; Alicia - How I Was Absorbed from Afar; Richard - Arrivals and Departures; Marty - Tunneling to California and Back or Psychic Farming, Part II; Verandah - An Essay in the Depresso; Marty - Breakfast on the Small Farm; Ellen - Vegetable Matters; Marty - Agriculture; Hugh - The Barrow Wright; Joan - Coping with Canning; Connie - Dyeing Is an Art Like Any Other; Verandah - Hats Made of Boredom; Richard - Rituals; Pepper - The Djellaba Story; Verandah - Empty Pockets Make the Most Noise; Bill - Christmas Day; Verandah - Taking the Horizontal; Richard - The Burning of the Library at Kajamunya; Letters from Ray Mungo; More Recipes; Epilogue. SYNOPSIS: To get away from it all, and back to the land, is the dream of an ever-increasing number of Americans. This is the story of a group of talented and temperamental people who made that dream come true by building a unique life together on a communal farm in New England. "Home Comfort" is the fanciful brand name of the well-worn, wood-burning stove that brings warmth and good eating to the kitchen of Total Loss Farm. Here it also serves as the title for a joyful collection of stories, essays, explanations, and wonderments drawn and written by this unusual family of friends and lovers. Invoking the spirit of Raymond Mungo's account of his first year on the farm (Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life), he and his fellow farm members set before us the different aspects, spiritual and practical, of their life. Explaining the founding of the farm, and its system of "systemless accomplishment," they tell why they came, what they left behind, what they were seeking--and what they found. Standing back from their lives to look into the heart of their communal experience, they share with us not only their hard-won understanding of what it takes to forge a community--love, honesty, tolerance--but also the rituals of their day-to-day existence--milking Bessie the cow, cooking, gardening, chopping wood. And they offer us the benefits of their experience, from tried and true recipes for yoghurt, strudel, breads, even tempura--to instructions for maple-sugaring, wine-making, butchering a hog, digging a well, building a cradle. The trials and joys, the escapades and hassles, the risks, mysteries, and contradictions of social pioneering in the New Age are all here in this introspective and disarming volume. Home Comfort is a guide for those who desire to become more self-sufficient and a revelation for the curious.. Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. Illus. by The People of Total Loss Farm. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Fully Booked
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- Home Comfort
- Autor
- People of Total Loss Farm, The
- Ilustrador
- The People of Total Loss Farm
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0841502285
- ISBN 13
- 9780841502284
- Editorial
- Saturday Review Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 1973
- Palabras clave
- Biography
- Catálogos del vendedor
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- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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For a good portion of the 1990's, our family was interested in the idea of entering the used book business. We are all avid readers, book lovers, and book collectors who cannot pass a bookstore without popping in. Family trips to the library and our local used bookstore were a regularity while growing up. With each of us having interests in different genres (with a little overlapping here and there), we cover a lot of bases. The thought of having a store of our own was appealing, and the hunt was on - both for stock and a location.
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
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