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On The Roof : A Thatcher's Journey by Tom Allan 9781788167444

On The Roof : A Thatcher's Journey

Tom Allan

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"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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Product Information

Title: On The Roof : A Thatcher's Journey
Author: Tom Allan
ISBN: 9781788167444
Format: Paperback / softback
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 23 mm
Publication Date: 15 May, 2025
Pagination: 304 pages
Weight: 250 g

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