{"product_id":"tom-allan-on-the-roof-2024-hardback","title":"Tom Allan: On The Roof [2024] hardback","description":"A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An excellent, beautifully written book' Patrick Galbraith, Sunday Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A rich and hugely enjoyable celebration of the local, the vernacular and traditional ... a beautifully written craftsman's memoir' Daily Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What a marvellous book. Full of lore, information, interest, beautifully captured people. Poetry' Craig Raine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThatching is one of the world's oldest crafts - an ancient trade that roots us in nature, as Tom Allan discovered when he quit an office job to become an apprentice in Devon. Now a master of the trade, in On the Roof 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, On the Roof is a story of how we live with the land and how we have chosen to treat it.","brand":"Allan, Tom","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50298952941907,"sku":"9781788167437","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/allan-tom-tom-allan-on-the-roof-2024-hardback-9781788167437-61121324843347.jpg?v=1738211350","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/tom-allan-on-the-roof-2024-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}