Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nelson, Pete / Nelson, Peter / Larkin, David, PUBLISHER: Mariner ong>Bookong>s, Treehouses lift the spirits. They inspire dreams. They represent freedom: from adults or adulthood, from duties ong>andong> responsibilities, from an earthbound perspective. If we can't fly with the birds, at least we can nest with them. With lively writing ong>andong> 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 ong>andong> build a treehouse, from picking the right tree to shingling the roof. ong>Andong> it tells the stories of dozens of treehouses ong>andong> the people who built them, from simple platforms nailed together by kids to arboreal palaces constructed ong>andong> lived in by grown-ups. The centerpiece of the ong>bookong> is a photo essay showing Pete Nelson building a spectacular octagonal treehouse thirty feet up an old-growth fir on Saltspring Islong>andong> in British Columbia. With two hundred square feet of floor space, cedar paneling, ong>andong> leaded French doors, the Saltspring treehouse is one of the finest specimens of the treehouse builder's art. Anyone who has ever built a treehouse, or dreamed of it, or read Swiss Family Robinson, will find Treehouses irresistible.