Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes
(Part of the Wooden Books Series)
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The need for shelter is one of mankind's most basic, and mankind has been inventive in creating homes to fill this need. This book looks at the principal types of wooden and stick frame structures built around the world, and examines how their shape and form reflect cultural and cosmological considerations as well as climatic and utilitarian ones. The book charts the gradual shift from the circular homes of nomads to the rectangular ones favored...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:B00A2PZ3ZU
ISBN13:9780802717733
Release Date:November 2009
Publisher:Bloomsbury USA
Length:64 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.5" x 7.4"
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