Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on A Limb by Nelson, Peter - 1994-04-26

Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Good. 11x8x0. Clean pages with no markings. Minor wear on edges and corners. Ships same day in most cases!Ask for photos!

Houghton Mifflin. Very Good. 1994. Hardcover. 0395629500 . The book is in great overall condition, showing only minor cosmetic wear. .

U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1994. First edition. Treehouses lift the spirits. They inspire dreams. They represent freedom: from adults or adulthood, from duties and responsibilities, from an earthbound perspective. If we can't fly with the birds, at least we can nest with them. With lively writing and beautiful photographs, Treehouses paints a fascinating portrait of this ingenious branch of architecture. It provides a brief history of treehouses, from Caligula through the Medici to Queen Victoria. It shows how to design and build a treehouse, from picking the right tree to shingling the roof. And it tells the stories of dozens of treehouses and the people who built them, from simple platforms nailed together by kids to arboreal palaces constructed and lived in by grown-ups. The centerpiece of the book is a photo essay showing Pete Nelson building a spectacular octagonal treehouse thirty feet up an old-growth fir on Saltspring Island in British Columbia. With two hundred square feet of… Read More

Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!