Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching, and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village - Couverture souple

Mellin, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1568988079 ISBN 13 : 9781568988078

Editeur : Princeton Architectural Press, 2008

Synopsis

One of the best studies of vernacular architecture and winner of the prestigious Winterset Literary Award is now available in a paperback edition. Tilting is author Robert Mellin's personal account of the houses, outbuildings, furniture, tools, fences, docks, and way of life of a fishing village on a small island far off the Canadian coast. Part journal, part sketchbook, part oral history, Tilting is a treasure chest of a book that offers new discoveries with each reading and a reminder of the simpler aspects of life and building.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'Architecture provides the window through which the author studies the human graces of a community of people. The book is less about roof trusses and clapboard than it is about the poetry of inhabiting a particular piece of geography over centuries, spoken in the language of village architecture.'—The Globe and Mail, 100 Best Books of 2003

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton Architectural Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1568988079
• ISBN 13: 9781568988078
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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