{"product_id":"slow-tech-haynes-manuals","title":"Slow Tech (Haynes Manuals)","description":"Product Description\n\nHighly readable and hugely practical this book is either armchair reading or a valuable guide to getting your hands dirty and creating something useful as you discover the art of slow technology. Featuring topics such as building bread ovens, making clay pots in a bonfire, felling and processing trees, cooking on open fires, blacksmithing, beer making, wattle and daubing, this book is a combination of the dangerous book for boys and a practical manual of experimental archaeology and historical research.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nPeter 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 specialises 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 property that he is renovating.","brand":"Haynes Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40377600671829,"sku":"9781785216169N","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/b5a08c46-1110-4d2a-95dd-8f4e458d7b6c.jpg?v=1665568131","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/slow-tech-haynes-manuals","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}