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\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An excellent, beautifully written book' Patrick Galbraith, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c/i\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A rich and hugely enjoyable celebration of the local, the vernacular and traditional ... a beautifully written craftsman's memoir' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThatched 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.\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThatching 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 \u003ci\u003eOn the Roof\u003c/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEye-opening, beautifully told and revealing a tradition hand-shaped over centuries, \u003ci\u003eOn the Roof \u003c/i\u003eis a story of how we live with the land and how we have chosen to treat it.\u003c/p\u003e |
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