On The Roof: A Thatcher's Journey (Paperback)
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'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
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. The Globe Theatre is the only building with a thatched roof in London.
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.
Every purchase you make supports the work of Shakespeare's Globe. Thank you!
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Author: Tom Allan
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Pages: 304
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'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
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. The Globe Theatre is the only building with a thatched roof in London.
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.
Every purchase you make supports the work of Shakespeare's Globe. Thank you!
Detail
Author: Tom Allan
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Unser Ziel ist es, Shop-Produkte innerhalb von:
Großbritannien – 1-2 Wochen
Europa – 2-4 Wochen
Rest der Welt – 2-4 Wochen
Bitte beachten Sie, dass Print-to-Order-Produkte getrennt vom Rest Ihrer Bestellung versandt werden. Das heißt, wenn Sie diese Artikel zusammen mit anderen Shop-Produkten bestellen, kommen diese nicht alle zusammen an und Sie erhalten mehrere Lieferungen.
