'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.
Thatching is one of the world's oldest crafts - an ancient trade that roots us in nature, as Tom Allen 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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History of ArchitectureTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Author’s Note
- Contents
- Introduction: The Barn
- Part One: Devon
- Part Two: Norfolk and Suffolk
- Part Three: Scotland
- Part Four: Læsø
- Part Five: The Netherlands
- Part Six: The Danube Delta
- Part Seven: Japan
- Epilogue: Devon
- Some Thatching Terms
- Acknowledgements
- Photographs
- Endnotes
- Permissions
- Index
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