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Re:On a farm in Missouri, a radical experiment in self-suffi... by DanBC on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @04:58AM (#8393422)
In the UK this book started a movement of people wanting to be more self-sufficient, using small gardens and allotments to grow food and sometimes livestock.

We had chickens when I was young (about four, five?) and goats when I was a bit older.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1405345101/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qi...

(It would be nice if Amazon could offer cleaner URLs for sharing.)

Re:On a farm in Missouri, a radical experiment in self-suffi... by akadruid1 on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @07:34AM (#8393786)
They do exist, I don't know why they don't publish them more.

The following are valid on the UK store:

http://amzn.co.uk/dp/1405345101

http://amazon.co.uk/The-New-Complete-Book-Self-Sufficiency/d...

and on the US store they have even shorter variants:

http://amzn.com/1405345101

Re:On a farm in Missouri, a radical experiment in self-suffi... by Luc on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @07:25AM (#8393758)
> (It would be nice if Amazon could offer cleaner URLs for sharing.)

I do this a lot by cleaning up the URL by hand. Use dp/ followed by the ISBN number, like so:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1405345101