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On the roof
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- Book Synopsis
- '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.
- About The Author
- Tom Allan has been working as a thatcher since 2012. Based in South Devon, he also writes for the Guardian (often about thatching) and the travel section of the Financial Times.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781788167444
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Profile Books, (14 May 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Weight
- 250 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 196 x 128 x 24 mm
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