Slow Tech - The perfect antidote to today's digital world

Highly readable and hugely practical this book is a valuable guide to creating something useful as you discover the art of slow technology. Create steam, weave cloth, purify water, make salt, bake bread, distil perfume, dye cloth, puddle clay and in doing so reconnect with your own practical and creative abilities.

About the author

Peter Ginn is an archaeologist and historian who graduated from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London and has a particular interest in experimental archaeology. His research interests include Egyptology, field archaeology and primitive technologies, and he specializes in 19th-century farming practice. Peter is best known for his BBC TV appearances in series such as Tales from the Green Valley, Victorian Farm, Secrets of the Castle and A Tudor Feast at Christmas. Peter now lives in Somerset in an amazing Victorian mansion that he is renovating.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Ginn
• Publisher: Haynes Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2019
• EAN: 9781785216169
• ISBN: 978-1-78521-616-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 215 mm x 277 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 743 g
• Subject: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Car, motorcycle, moped