Customer Reviews

A Small Cabin That One Person Can Build

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Save your money. This book offers minimal information. B&W photos are dark and almost uninterpretable. There are no real drawings or prints to quantify the design. The professional reviews were most surely the most gratuitous verbage I've ever been so sorry to read. Again, save your money. Go to the library if they were unfortunate enough to purchase it. Then if you like it, you can have mine for the shipping.

The book is based on the author's own experience. So, its not just a theoretical approach. Everything is covered from building a small cabin, setting up a solar power supply, sewage treatment, etc. Very practical with either clear photographs or drawings.

I enjoyed reading the book -- I even enjoyed the footnotes. I thought that the author had a nice writing style and was easy to read. I found the content interesting since it provided information on how to build a simple cabin from what one could harvest off the land. From this standpoint, this looks like a unique book, since it does not assume that you have lots of money to purchase everything from your local lumberyard. As someone who has some familiarity with tools, but not a lot, I also learned much from the description of the tools and products that went into the cabin. For example, I had not heard about paper and glue snake traps before nor did I know that you could shoot snakes with 22-shot shells. This is the type of practical and useful information that a city person like me would not know about, but would be extremely valuable in actually living off the land. I found the cabin to be an impressive accomplishment for a single person, but I also felt that I could actually build such a cabin using the descriptions in the book and the tools and products described.

Poor excuse for a cabin. Not enough clear pictures to show how to build it if you decided to build it. Lots of Pots on the roof with no explanation what they were for. Sounded like the author was paranoid as he talked about Double ought shotgun loads and a 22 with bird shot for snakes. I wish someone had written a review like this before I bought this book.