Shelters,Shacks and Shanties (Dover Books on Architecture)

Paperback. Pub Date :2004-09-01 Pages: 243 Language: English Publisher: Dover Publications This excellent hands-on guide by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America contains a wealth of practical instruction and advice on how to build everything . from a bark teepee and a tree-top house to a log cabin and a sod house No professional architects are needed here; and knowing how to use an axe is more important than possessing carpentry skills.More than 300 of the authors own illustrations and a clear. easy-to-follow text enable campers to create such lodgings as half-cave shelters. beaver mat huts. birch bark shacks. over-water camps. a Navajo hogan. and a pole house. Additional chapters provide information on how to use an axe. split and notch logs. make a fireplace. and even build appropriate gateways to log houses. game preserves. ranches. and other open areas.An inv...