On The Roof (eBook)

A Thatcher's Journey

TOM ALLAN (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
304 Seiten
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-820-3 (ISBN)

Infos

'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 MailThatched 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 Allen 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.

Rezensionen

The fascinating story of how craft, community and nature combine to keep the roofs over our heads

A rich and hugely enjoyable celebration of the local, the vernacular and traditional ... a beautifully written craftsman's memoir

This well written blend of travelogue and paean to an ancient craft is beguiling

Hugely enjoyable - Tom Allan is a real craftsman, knowledgeable, curious and a superb storyteller

Told in a very engaging way. It is hard to put down

One of those books that gives you insight into a subject you didn't know you wanted to know about ... still you find yourself just so appreciative of this undying craft and the author's passion for it

Brilliant

[Allan's] adventure, structured as neatly as the thatching he describes, is both a love letter to an ancient craft and an exultant ode to living your truest life .... what more tangible legacy could there be than placing a roof over one's head?

A beautifully-crafted, highly-original, spirit-lifting, hands-on adventure

Tom Allan writes easily and appealingly, making his Thatcher's Journey one of discovery and delight. The gently described practicalities of the craft had me entranced

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.8.2024
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: cottagecore • hedgemaking • heritage crafts • of thorn and briar • Roofing • thatching • The Old Ways Robert MacFarlane • Traditional Woodland Crafts Ray Tabor • Why We Make Things and Why It Matters Peter Korn
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-820-1 / 1782838201
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-820-3 / 9781782838203