Lost Wisdom: A Celebration of Traditional Knowledge from Foraging and Festivals to Seafring and Smoke Signals

cooking with a range - counting sheep - curing drunkenness

finding water - signalling with semaphore - identifying plants and trees

making and taking tea - natural first aid - using an abacus

navigating by nature - preparing antidotes to poisoning

predicting the sex of a baby - repairing clothes

curing warts - weather forecasting





Lost Wisdom is a celebration of the time-honoured wisdom upon which we all once relied. It draws on folklore, tradition and superstition, and is packed with amusing anecdotes and historical extracts which illuminate the beliefs and knowledge of our ancestors. It brings to life the wisdom and practical skills that helped generation after generation, only becoming lost with the advent of mechanization and the technological age.



Following in the footsteps of Lost Crafts, Lost Wisdom is a beautiful book that will once more immerse you in the pleasures of the past.