How to Live Without Electricity---And Like It (Paperback)

by Anita Evangelista (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited (1997)
• ISBN-10: 1559501626
• ISBN-13: 978-1559501620
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,754,520 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book You Can't Do Without, June 24, 2002

By	Sam T. Arnold (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Live Without Electricity & Like It (Paperback)

Someday you will find yourself without electricty. Either you will be deprived of it, say, from a power outage, or you will be somewhere where elecricity is not. You need to know how to deal with it.This book is a positive step in making these lacks as painless as possible. Anita Evangelista tells us "how to" based on her own experience, having lived on a farm without elecricity for a number of years. You can either guide your destiny or you can be a victim of sociey or circumstance. Make the right choices. Buy a copy of this book. If you know someone living in the country, where power outages are a way of life, buy them a copy, too, right away. I recommend this book. I have used it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book..., January 27, 2006

By	MotherLodeBeth "MotherLodeBeth" (Sierras of California) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

This review is from: How to Live Without Electricity & Like It (Paperback)

This is an excellent all around informative book on aspects of livings sans electricity as well as how to live in a rural area sans commercial energy, water etc. An excellent aspect of the book is how it makes you think before you buy land and move, about things like using a spring fed water set up for both in home water as well as a refrigeration system. And how even a small solar set up with some storage batteries could serve a single or couple well for basic things like a computer or lights. The author also gets you to thinking outside the box about Amish style appliances that can run off of propane, natural gas. And wood burning stoves and furnaces.

Fact is common sense or knowledge about how to do without many modern well hyped conveniences is almost forgotten, so yes, this book is one I recommend to anyone who wants to learn alot that you either didn't learn in school or at home.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellant overview of alternatives to the power companies, May 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Live Without Electricity & Like It (Paperback)

This is one of the books Michael Hyatt recommends be in a Y2K library. Despite the title, some of the techniques do use electricity; but Anita's electricity is under your control, not an external power company.

One of the areas which is subject to disruption by significant Y2K problems is electric power. It also has and will be interrupted by weather, natural disaster and drunks running into poles. It behoves us all to have the knowlege and equipment to get safely and comfortably through power outages.

This book is an excellant first step. Anita addresses just about every aspect of life which is likely to be dependant on the power grid and lists and compares the practical alternatives. Along the way she provides tips she learned the hard way.

I found the section on generating power to be a little too high level, but then again 'without electricity' is part of the title, so perhaps this was intentional.

These comments are about the 1997 release without Michael Ziesling, and may or many not be applicable to the new version