{"product_id":"on-the-roof-a-thatchers-journey-paperback","title":"On The Roof: A Thatcher's Journey (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e'An excellent, beautifully written book' Patrick Galbraith, Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A rich and hugely enjoyable celebration of the local, the vernacular and traditional ... a beautifully written craftsman's memoir' Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThatched 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThatching 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOn the Roof\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEye-opening, beautifully told and revealing a tradition hand-shaped over centuries, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOn the Roof\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a story of how we live with the land and how we have chosen to treat it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEvery purchase you make supports the work of Shakespeare's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Globe. Thank you!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eDetail\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Tom Allan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: 304\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56435222675834,"sku":"9781788167444","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0024\/7162\/4762\/files\/on-the-roof-book_ba439f55-6a6d-42df-9cc7-d08bc847f4b9.jpg?v=1768296913","url":"https:\/\/shop.shakespearesglobe.com\/de\/products\/on-the-roof-a-thatchers-journey-paperback","provider":"Shakespeare's Globe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}