A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder by Pollan, Michael - 1998

Random House Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Delta, 1998-02-09. Paperback. Good.

"A room of one's own: is there anybody who hasn't at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn't turned those soft words over until they'd assumed a habitable shape?"

When writer Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was an award-winning treatise on the borders between nature and contemporary life, the acclaimed bestseller Second Nature. Now Pollan turns his sharp insight to the craft of building, as he recounts the process of designing and constructing a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut property--a place in which he hoped to read, write and daydream, built with his two own unhandy hands.

Invoking the titans of architecture, literature and philosophy, from Vitrivius to Thoreau, from the Chinese masters of feng shui to the revolutionary Frank Lloyd Wright, Pollan brilliantly chronicles a realm of blueprints, joints and trusses as he peers into the ephemeral nature of "houseness" itself. From the spark of an idea to the search for a perfect site to the raising… Read More

Square uncreased spine, nowriting or marks, one folded page corner.

Dell, February 1998. Trade Paperback. Used Good. Wear to cover, bumped corners, pages tanned but clean and unmarked. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.

Paperback. Very Good.

8" x 5.25", 321 pages. Clean copy. paper shows age, binding sound, no marks in text, minor scuffs to corners and edges. Philosophical and analytical look at building your own space, the history of architecture, and how to make your own house from the ground up. Our book number 1501.

Dell, 1998-02-09. Paperback. Used:Good.

Dell, 1998-03-01. Paperback. New. 7x5x1.

Dell, 1998-03-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!