A brief introduction to the construction and history of basic shelters. Shelter is one of our most basic needs, and throughout history mankind has been highly inventive in meeting it. Simple Shelters introduces the principal types of wooden and stick-frame structures built around the world, examining how their shape and form reflect cultural and cosmological considerations as well as climatic and utilitarian needs. Charting the gradual shift from the circular homes of the nomads to the rectangular ones favored by settled people, Jonathan Horning explores materials and construction principles over millennia, including the geodesic experiments of the twentieth century.
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Jonathan Horning has taught geometry and workshop skills at the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London for over 15 years. Also an experienced carpenter and joiner, he lives in Devon, UK, with his wife and children.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Interesting little book on simple shelters,
By Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes (Wooden Books) (Hardcover)
In particular, how they're not quite so simple and are well engineered for thier environment and/or portability. It's probably enough to let you build a yurt, tipi, or simple geodesic dome as long as you're reasonably handy. There's a lot of information packed into this very small book.
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Good, but small,
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This review is from: Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes (Wooden Books) (Hardcover)
While this book provides a good overview of various types of shelters, it is lacking in many ways. Because each shelter type is only given a page or two (and because each page is so small) significant external research would be required to even begin to construct any of these. That being said, it does provide info on many shelter types of which I was entirely unaware.
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