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30%OFFL Haun - Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses, A - 9781600854026 - V9781600854026
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Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses, A

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Description for Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses, A Hardback. Part memoir, part cultural history, this book tells the history of homebuilding in America over the past 100 years, told through twelve modest houses that the author knows intimately. Num Pages: 224 pages, b/w throughout, 10 drawings, 80 photographs. BIC Classification: BGA; WKDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 26. Weight in Grams: 508.
Part memoir, part cultural history, this is a book about the history of homebuilding in America over the past 100 years, told through twelve unique but modest houses that the author knows intimately. We follow the author from the sod house in Nebraska where his mother was born through the frame house where he spent his childhood to the production houses that he built one a day in the San Fernando Valley to the Habitat for Humanity houses that he has been devoting his time to most recently. While the houses provide the narrative glue, they are but part of ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Taunton Press Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Connecticut, United States
ISBN
9781600854026
SKU
V9781600854026
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Ref
99-50

About L Haun
Larry Haun began his building career on the Nebraska prairie, where at 17 he helped to build his first house. In 1951, he joined his older brother in a Los Angeles building boom that brought about rapid change in tools, materials and building methods. Retired now in Coos Bay, Ore., Haun builds houses for Habitat for Humanity and backpacks in ... Read more

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