A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'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'What a marvellous book. Full of lore, information, interest, beautifully captured people. Poetry' Craig RaineThatched 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 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.
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- Authors:
- Allan, Tom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781788167437
- Publication Date:
- 29/08/2024
- Publisher:
- Profile Books Ltd
- Year Published:
- 2024
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Number of Pages:
- 304
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9781788167437