Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes
A brief introduction to the construction and history of basic
shelters. Shelter is one of our most basic needs, and throughout
history mankind has been highly inventive in meeting it.
"Simple Shelters "introduces the principal types of
wooden and stick-frame structures built around the world, examining
how their shape and form reflect cultural and cosmological
considerations as well as climatic and utilitarian needs. Charting
the gradual shift from the circular homes of the nomads to the
rectangular ones favored by settled people, Jonathan Horning
explores materials and construction principles over millennia,
including the geodesic experiments of the twentieth century.
