For Love of Yurts: Building an Ultra Simple Yurt Home for Under a $1000

About the Author
When he discovered that he could not afford to purchase a yurt kit, Bruce W Sargent, graduate of Yale, educator, woodworker, turned his life long skills for learning to understanding yurt design and building his own homemade, handcrafted yurt. In this process he created a plan for building the simplest, most easily constructed yurt, which he used to build a home for himself in which he has lived in all seasons. The results of his work were beyond all of his expectations and he found himself transformed, living in a home deeply connected to nature..


About the Book
For the Love of Yurts: Building an Ultra Simple Yurt Home for Under a $1000 is the step by step story of applying the simplest woodworking skills to build the simplest yurt, resulting in a home of magical and complex beauty. Yurt design is explored, mysteries of the hourglass shaped walls of traditional Mongolian yurts unraveled, the simplest solutions to challenges of yurt building are shared. Enchanted moments, growing out of living a simple yurt life embedded in nature are revealed as well.