Classical Books on Farming/Prepping

[Tartar Horde]

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

[Skean Dhude]

Excellent find. It is stuff like that that shows us how it was done before power tools came along. I include transport in that.

[bigpaul]

(17 January 2012, 13:44)Tartar Horde Wrote: 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

cant find the reference to "roman farm management" or cato the elder , can you refine the link??

[Tartar Horde]

(17 January 2012, 16:00)bigpaul Wrote:

(17 January 2012, 13:44)Tartar Horde Wrote: 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

cant find the reference to "roman farm management" or cato the elder , can you refine the link??

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

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If anyone wants any more classical works let me know i'm only too happy to help

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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/Ro...ta/1*.html

[bigpaul]

(17 January 2012, 16:11)Tartar Horde Wrote:

(17 January 2012, 16:00)bigpaul Wrote:

(17 January 2012, 13:44)Tartar Horde Wrote: 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

cant find the reference to "roman farm management" or cato the elder , can you refine the link??

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

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If anyone wants any more classical works let me know i'm only too happy to help

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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/Ro...ta/1*.html

ok, done, thanks.

[Tartar Horde]

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/KingListsB...ilures.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/Ro...ta/1*.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Ro...text*.html

[Straight Shooter]

NOPE TH i can,t get it either ?

[Tarrel]

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.

[Steve]

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.

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You can but for a couple of pounds:

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDe...ortby%3D20

[Straight Shooter]

Thanks Steve just ordered mine....along with many others i have.