{"product_id":"simple-shelters-tents-tipis-yurts-domes-and-other-ancient-homes-wooden-books-38","title":"Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes (Wooden Books, 38)","description":"A brief introduction to the construction and history of basic shelters.\n\nThe need for shelter is one of mankind's most basic, and mankind has been inventive in creating homes to fill this need. This book looks at the principal types of wooden and stick frame structures built around the world, and examines how their shape and form reflect cultural and cosmological considerations as well as climatic and utilitarian ones. The book charts the gradual shift from the circular homes of nomads to the rectangular ones favored by settled people, and examines the new geodesic experiments of the 20th Century.\n\n- Explore simple home materials: grasses, woven panels, bamboo, canvas, skin and bark\n\n- Learn the characteristics of Native American tipis, yurts and their variations, and Bedouin tents\n\n- Discover construction principles that make simple homes sound: \"squared timber\" and pegged mortise and tenon joints, geodesic domes, and triangularity\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 080271773X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.080271773X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Horning, Jonathan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41448981823546,"sku":"DBV.080271773X.G","price":5.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/080271773X-0.jpg?v=1780875172","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/simple-shelters-tents-tipis-yurts-domes-and-other-ancient-homes-wooden-books-38","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}