{"product_id":"9781785216169","title":"Slow Tech: The Perfect Antidote to Today's Digital World: Forge * Carve* Weave * Mould * Ignite","description":"The illustrated \u003ci\u003eSlow Tech \u003c\/i\u003emanual will interest historians and re-enactors, parents managing their children's screen time, and young adults looking for mindful and practical escapes from the digital age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. Highly readable and hugely practical, the 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. Light a fire without matches and cook a meal on it. Weave a basket, build a bread oven in your back garden and brew your own beer. Go camping in the wild, build a shelter, catch fish without a rod, and teach your kids how to knap flint. Whether you decide to try to make your own forge in the garden, carve a wooden spoon, build a dry-stone wall, or process your own salt, you will be reconnecting with your own practical abilities and creative impulses.","brand":"Haynes Publishing UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46361684869361,"sku":"9781785216169","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781785216169_p0.jpg?v=1765246412","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785216169","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}