Dwelling Portably 1990–1999 (DIY)
“Microcosm Publishing has put together what looks like every issue of this marvelous zine from the last decade of the last century. This is a dense compendium of information you can use to go camping safely and simply, to augment your home with natural, eco-friendly strategies and devices, and/or make yourself more self-sufficient in sometimes surprising ways. Want to live in a tent? Here’s how. What about a van? Okay, here’s how to rig electricity for your van safely, and how to care for the engine to boot. Need to know the law governing yurt usage in your area? Or how to lift a bicycle over a fence? Also includes lots of review of products like effective self-defense tools, food for camping, and the like. This is all capped with a very handy, helpful index (Faucet – milk jug, p. 42). If you want to simplify your life, get this book. It is amazing. And for only $7, why wouldn’t you get it?”  —Clint Johns,Zine World"More great DIY dosage courtesy of Microcosm Publishing, who’ve helped compile a whopping thirty years worth of hand-typed, hard-won knowledge of life on the road originally published asMessage Post. How to hop a freight train, how to build a solar cooker, how to keep mobile chickens, and how to build a yurt are some of the back-to-basics, practical tips you’ll find here, shared by the Davises as well as by their loyal readers (and fellow portable dwellers). Forget the cupboard of canned soup and those survivalist scare pamphlets—when the big upheaval hits,Dwelling Portablyis the resource you’ll want to have by your side."  —Lime