On The Roof: A Thatcher's Journey Tom Allan Profile Books Ltd 0829

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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. Σελίδες: 304, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0829, Διαστάσεις: 14x14cm

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