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Beschreibung
A FINANCIAL TIMES. BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024. 'An excellent, beautifully written book' Patrick Galbraith, Sunday Times. 'A rich and hugely enjoyable celebration of the local, the vernacular and traditional. a beautifully written craftsman's memoir' Daily Mail. 'What a marvellous book. Full of lore, information, interest, beautifully captured people. Poetry' Craig Raine. Thatched roofs are like living organisms: each one a web of repair, replacement and alteration, shaped, dressed and re-moulded by every pair of hands that works on it. Thatching is one of the world's oldest crafts - an ancient trade that roots us in nature, as Tom Allan discovered when he quit an office job to become an apprentice in Devon. Now a master of the trade, in On the Roof. he goes in search of its history and future, meeting fellow thatchers, from the son of a lobster fisherman who thatches with a dune grass in the Hebrides, to a Syrian refugee who found peace among the seagrass roofs of Denmark, to one of the first women to master Japan's 5,000-year-old thatching tradition. Eye-opening, beautifully told and revealing a tradition hand-shaped over centuries, On the Roof. is a story of how we live with the land and how we have chosen to treat it.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Tom Allan
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2024
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 304