We saw “ The Lost Ways ” by Claude Davis being advertised widely and purchased a replicate. It has a a few interesting items, and a fortune of recipes. Overall we do not recommend it. We ‘ll explain why, and share the books that we prefer .
The Lost Ways Book Review
The Lost Ways books touts itself as a survival book, teaching you how to live like a pioneer or native american english. In world, it reads more like a collection of web log posts, with advanced engineering sprinkled throughout .
It ‘s incomplete, discrepant, and decidedly not off grid. ( Immersion blenders do not belong in a book claim to be teaching “ the old ways ”. )
The Lost Ways book is not as equally full as Carla Emery ‘s The Encyclopedia of Country Living, and it ‘s more expensive .
( Read our revue of The Encyclopedia of Country Living here. )
We liked the data about the sheriffs, smokehouse and root basement chart, but it needed about 40 more items like these to compete with Carla ‘s book .
The Lost Ways is about twice the price of the Encyclopedia of Country Living, with less than half as many pages. The Encyclopedia of Country living is besides a very dense book in comparison. ( There is army for the liberation of rwanda more information on each page. )
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For about the same price, you could get Emery’s book AND another one and have far more value. (See The Best Homesteading Books list for more of our favorites.)
so although the Lost Ways book is all right, it is not on our recommend list. It needs more information on construction/building, skin, and other traditional skills .
warn : If you choose to purchase the “ Lost Ways ” book, be careful with the checkout march. It is easy to by chance order more than one copy or order bundles, or order the electronic adaptation and not get the paper printed imitate .
besides, since we published this review in the first place, we ‘ve had readers leave comments indicating that they paid for the book, but never received it. Purchase at your own risk .
See besides “ The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies Review – Is it Worth the Money? “
Our short circuit list of readiness books includes the follow :
You can besides access electronic copies of out of print or older books at books.google.com. Some of them are quite good, including :
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Who is Claude Davis ?
After this review was originally published, we took a close attend at “ Claude Davis ” and the team behind the Lost Ways series of books. It appears that Claude does n’t actually exist, and is plainly a record brand. “ The name ( mho ), portrait ( south ), and/or key signature ( s ) shown in the score identifies Claudiu Giurgi, whose consent ( s ) to register is made of record. ”
On the about page of askaprepper dot com, it describes the supposed background of Mr. Davis, so far I ca n’t seem to find him anywhere else on the internet. The about foliate is about a mentality, not an individual, aimed toward their target customer. There are no details, like education or places of use. He does n’t teach or present, he only seems to sell books and prepper content .
If we look on the privacy policy foliate of Askaprepper point com, we find that the site is owned by Global Brother SRL. Further excavate reveals that Global Brother SRL is registered in Romania. We have no beef against international business, but we feel it is inappropriate to present yourself as being from the United States while working from Europe .
Some Notes on holocene Lost Ways Advertisements
One the reasons we wrote this review is the “ over the top ads ” the Lost Ways book team is putting out .
One of their ads features wild boodle as a pain stand-in. The instructions in the Lost Ways reserve for making wild boodle press out are probable to produce a rightfully putrid brew .
If you want to learn more about how to identify and safely use wild lettuce, see, “ Wild Lettuce – Sleep Aid and Pain Reliever – Weekly Weeder # 24 “ .
Another ad is for hardtack, where they tout it as a “ superfood ”. Hardtack is flour, water, and salt, baked until it ‘s cram dry .
The reason there was hardtack leave from the Civil War is because, to quote Crocodile Dundee, “ Well, you can live on it, but it taste like sh*t. ”
If you want to read some information about storing food that people want to eat, please see :
Best Non Perishable Foods ( For Home Use or Donations )
Foods to Stock Up On ( for Daily Use or Emergencies )
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We besides have over 100 post on garden, listed by category on the Gardening Index Page, and and dozens of post on Home Food Preservation .
originally published in 2020, updated in 2021 .
