Author: David Larkin::Elric Endersby::Alexander Greenwood
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Edition: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.9220973
Publication Date: 1992-11-17
Reading Level: 256
Description: A magnificant book of full-color photographs and text show the history, architecture, and beauty of the barn. BARN is a celebration of an ancient symbol of shelter and harvest, with more than two hundred full-color photographs and an informed text by two expert practitioners of the art and craft of barn restoration.
Customer Reviews
Review Summary: Best Ever Barn Book
Date: 2001-01-03
Details: Endersby and fellow authors, using an intelligent combination of pictures, drawings, and text to successfully depict both finished buildings and structural detail, have written the definitive book on barns. They trace the lineage of American barns from their European roots in a lively, readable, informative format. In addition to it's functional qualities, the book is quite handsome, a stunning addition to the library of anyone who likes barns. Quite simply, this is the best book on barns I have ever seen.
Review Summary: Barn, the art of a working building
Date: 2000-06-18
Details: This book is truely an inspiration... the images and descriptions will bring great memories of Barns to your mind, will bring tears to your eyes if you spent childhood fantasies in "the barn", and might inspire you to save, build, or restore a barn someday... thank you Elric, Alexander , and David, whoever and wherever you are for presenting such a work...It stays on the table, within easy reach...
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