Author: NELSON, PETER
Title: Treehouses : The Art and Craft of Living out on a Limb
Description: USA: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0395629497. 128 pages. "Paints a fascinating portrait of this ingenious branch of architecture. Provides a brief history of treehouses, from Caligula through the Medici to Queen Victoria. Shows how to design and build a treehouse, from picking the right tree to shingling the roof. Tells stories of dozens of treehouses and the people who built them, from simple platforms to arboreal palaces lived in by adults. The centrepiece of the book is a photo essay of a spectacular octagonal treehouse thirty feet up an old-growth fir on Saltspring Island in British Columbia." - from back cover. Usual library markings. Reading copy only. Very rough condition... as befits a very popular former library copy. Covers detached from contents, but present.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; TREE HOUSES GARDENING GARDEN FURNISHINGS Paints a fascinating portrait of this ingenious branch of architecture. Provides a brief history of treehouses, from Caligula through the Medici to Queen Victoria. Shows how to design and build a treehouse, from. Fair .

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