Lost Lore: A Celebration of Traditional Wisdom, from Foraging and Festivals to Seafaring and Smoke Signals

• Traditional wisdom from the great outdoors to the fireside, from the schoolroom to the sickbed
• Practical and pleasurable, a joy to read whether seeking instruction, inspiration or just curling up to daydream
• Beautifully produced with colour illustrations: an ideal gift for friends and family of all ages
• Cover by popular illustrator Rob Ryan

Table of Contents:
Health and Wellbeing
Using Natural First Aid
Using Natural Remedies
Preparing Antidotes to Poison
Curing Warts
Curing Drunkenness
Improving Digestion
Making Possets and Caudles
Living Longer
Caring for Hair
Caring for Skin
Caring for Teeth
Beautifying
Education and Knowledge
Using an abacus
Using logarithm tables
Using a slide rule
Imperial measurements
Converting decimal to pounds, shillings and pence
Using mnemonics
Using an almanac
Using codes and ciphers
Using a camera obscura
Socializing and Celebration
Predicting the sex of a baby
Celebrating births
Wooing and courting
Celebrating marriages
Mourning deaths
Observing etiquette
Dining
Making and taking tea
Celebrating with alcohol
Dancing
Celebrating the seasons
Celebrating a traditional Christmas
Letter writing
Writing by hand
Household
Living thriftily
Laying a fire
Cooking with a range
Choosing produce
Making the most of meat
Preserving by curing, smoking and salting
Preserving by drying
Preserving by pickling
Preserving by freezing and bottling
Storing vegetables, fruit and wine
Storing clothes
Repairing clothes
Dyeing
Laundering
Cleaning
Polishing furniture
Eradicating unpleasant household odours
Soap making
Eradicating pests and vermin
Gardening
Starting a car
Superstitions
Outdoor Life
Weather forecasting
Telling the time
Working with the moon and tides
Navigating by nature
Navigating using traditional maritime instruments
Navigating using a map and compass
Understanding longitude and latitude
Seafaring
Raft-making
Foraging for wild food
Mushrooming
Cooking alfresco
Making fire without matches
Finding water
Measuring ice
Identifying plants
Identifying trees
Tracking animals
Identifying birds
Signalling with semaphore
Signalling with Morse code
Signalling with smoke or fire
Signalling with naval flags
Surviving in the wilderness
Sheltering
Making outdoor equipment
Choosing and using wood
Counting sheep
Removing stones from horses' hooves
How to choose livestock and horses
Sharpening knives

About the Author(s):
Una McGovern is a freelance editor and writer, with books on a wide range of subjects to her name. She spent many years making regular forays from Edinburgh to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, before a return to rural Devon brought with it the opportunity to develop an organic kitchen garden, complete with traditional breed chickens. She now lives with her partner in a small Dartmoor town.
Paul Jenner is a writer and journalist specializing in lifestyle subjects. He lives with his partner, three horses, two dogs and two sheep in the foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees, where, when he´s not working, he enjoys hiking, riding, cycling, sailing, swimming, diving and snowboarding.

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