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Barn
Form and Function of an American Icon
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Barns is your ticket to delving into the fascinating history of these iconic American structures. You'll never see these unique structures the same way again!
Strong-timbered barns are icons of American agriculture, harboring multilayered stories from their floors to their rafters. Barn reveals the compelling history of barns from colonial times, examining how immigrants adapted traditional designs from their home countries to the American landscape.
It guides the reader on a tour of different kinds of barns, showing how construction materials, cultural influences, function, and style have given rise to their extraordinary variety. The reader will also learn about barn preservation, barns in pop culture and mythology, elements of barn style, and barn construction.
Barn is filled with fascinating facts about barns:
Strong-timbered barns are icons of American agriculture, harboring multilayered stories from their floors to their rafters. Barn reveals the compelling history of barns from colonial times, examining how immigrants adapted traditional designs from their home countries to the American landscape.
It guides the reader on a tour of different kinds of barns, showing how construction materials, cultural influences, function, and style have given rise to their extraordinary variety. The reader will also learn about barn preservation, barns in pop culture and mythology, elements of barn style, and barn construction.
Barn is filled with fascinating facts about barns:
Susan Carol Hauser is the author of twelve books, including My Kind of River Journey: Seeking Passage on the Mississippi; Outside after Dark; and Wild Rice: An Essential Guide to Cooking, History, and Harvesting. She has been a commentator on National Public Radio's "Living on Earth" and has received several literary grants and awards, including a McKnight Artist Fellowship Loft Award in Poetry and two Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants for Prose, the most recent in 2015. Her newest book is A Guide to the North Country National Scenic Trail in Minnesota, co-edited with Linda M. Johnson. Her freelance work has appeared in the Sun, the Old Farmer's Almanac, National Gardener, National Forests, and other regional and national magazines.
ISBN-13:
9780760361849
Veröffentl:
2017
Seiten:
160
Autor:
Susan Carol Hauser
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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