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Classical Books on Farming/Prepping - Tartar Horde - 17 January 2012
Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder)
Roman Farm Management.
E-Book can be found at http://www.munseys.com
This is how the Romans did it folks, this excellent treatise explains how to run a Roman farm and covers everything!
In a post SHTF scenario there is a lot of information that can be used in this book, as it shows how to farm without any modern power sources.
Highly recomended ( in my humble opinion)
Fortuna favet menti paratae
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping - Skean Dhude - 17 January 2012
Excellent find. It is stuff like that that shows us how it was done before power tools came along. I include transport in that.
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping - bigpaul - 17 January 2012
(17 January 2012, 13:44)Tartar Horde Wrote: Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder)cant find the reference to "roman farm management" or cato the elder , can you refine the link??
Roman Farm Management.
E-Book can be found at http://www.munseys.com
This is how the Romans did it folks, this excellent treatise explains how to run a Roman farm and covers everything!
In a post SHTF scenario there is a lot of information that can be used in this book, as it shows how to farm without any modern power sources.
Highly recomended ( in my humble opinion)
Fortuna favet menti paratae
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping - Tartar Horde - 17 January 2012
(17 January 2012, 16:00)bigpaul Wrote:(17 January 2012, 13:44)Tartar Horde Wrote: Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder)cant find the reference to "roman farm management" or cato the elder , can you refine the link??
Roman Farm Management.
E-Book can be found at http://www.munseys.com
This is how the Romans did it folks, this excellent treatise explains how to run a Roman farm and covers everything!
In a post SHTF scenario there is a lot of information that can be used in this book, as it shows how to farm without any modern power sources.
Highly recomended ( in my humble opinion)
Fortuna favet menti paratae
Here ya go mate this should bring page up, click on the title above Cato's name, select an option and download
http://www.munseys.com/detail/mode/author/cato
if it does not work I will sort another source for you
If anyone wants any more classical works let me know i'm only too happy to help
For anyone interested in the tactics that made the Roman Army the best in the ancient world, you might enjoy this
Sextus Julius Frontinus (ca. 40–103 AD)
Strategems
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Frontinus/Strategemata/1*.html
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping - bigpaul - 17 January 2012
(17 January 2012, 16:11)Tartar Horde Wrote:ok, done, thanks.(17 January 2012, 16:00)bigpaul Wrote:(17 January 2012, 13:44)Tartar Horde Wrote: Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder)cant find the reference to "roman farm management" or cato the elder , can you refine the link??
Roman Farm Management.
E-Book can be found at http://www.munseys.com
This is how the Romans did it folks, this excellent treatise explains how to run a Roman farm and covers everything!
In a post SHTF scenario there is a lot of information that can be used in this book, as it shows how to farm without any modern power sources.
Highly recomended ( in my humble opinion)
Fortuna favet menti paratae
Here ya go mate this should bring page up, click on the title above Cato's name, select an option and download
http://www.munseys.com/detail/mode/author/cato
if it does not work I will sort another source for you
If anyone wants any more classical works let me know i'm only too happy to help
For anyone interested in the tactics that made the Roman Army the best in the ancient world, you might enjoy this
Sextus Julius Frontinus (ca. 40–103 AD)
Strategems
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Frontinus/Strategemata/1*.html
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping - Tartar Horde - 1 May 2015
This book by Sextus Julius Frontinus: gives an illuminating insight into the Roman War machine, and why they were so successful. Interestingly Frontinus was sent to Britain in 74/75 Ad to subdue the Silures, a tribe in modern Wales
http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsBritain/BritainSilures.htm
Frontinus was also an engineer of some repute and another book deals with Aqueducts and how to construct them. I hope you find them aninteresting read, enjoy
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Frontinus/Strategemata/1*.html
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Frontinus/De_Aquis/text*.html
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping - Straight Shooter - 1 May 2015
NOPE TH i can,t get it either ?
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping - Tarrel - 1 May 2015
How recent can it be and still be defined as "classical"? "The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency" by John Seymour, published in the '70's, is a seminal work.
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping - Steve - 2 May 2015
Also available updated, as "The NEW complete book of SELF-SUFFICIENCY", from Doring Kindersley ISBN 0-7513-6442-8 .
If I could only save one book it would be this one.
You can but for a couple of pounds:
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=15782419299&searchurl=tn%3Dthe+new+complete+book+of+self+sufficiency+the+classic+guide+for+realists+and+dreamers%26sortby%3D20
RE: Classical Books on Farming/Prepping - Straight Shooter - 2 May 2015
Thanks Steve just ordered mine....along with many others i have.