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Book Synopsis A Reverence for Wood by : Eric Sloane
Download or read book A Reverence for Wood written by Eric Sloane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-02-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book underscores the important role that wood has played in the development of American life and culture. Covering such topics as the aesthetics of wood, wooden implements, and carpentry, Sloane remarks expansively and with affection on the resourcefulness of Early Americans in their use of this precious commodity.
Book Synopsis A Museum of Early American Tools by : Eric Sloane
Download or read book A Museum of Early American Tools written by Eric Sloane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful evocation of simpler times and the tools that built America has always held a special place in the hearts of lovers of Americana and Yankee ingenuity. Now available in a handsome hardcover gift edition, this engaging, informative book features 184 of the author's inimitable drawings.
Book Synopsis A Reverence for Wood by : Eric Sloane
Download or read book A Reverence for Wood written by Eric Sloane and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The special knowledge of which wood is suited to which task, the ready identification of native trees, the reverence for wood, the instinctive knowledge that wood can warm the soul as well as the body -- these virtues of a bygone age are revived in Eric Sloane's remarkable work. Heavily illustrated, with a section on identification of nearly sixty native trees, A REVERENCE FOR WOOD provides an illuminating view of the resource that made possible so much of the early settlement of North America.
Book Synopsis Our Vanishing Landscape by : Eric Sloane
Download or read book Our Vanishing Landscape written by Eric Sloane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes readers on a leisurely journey through a bygone era with fascinating accounts of canals, corduroy roads, and turnpikes, waterwheels and icehouses, colorful road signs and their painters, circus folk, and more. Brimming with anecdotes about people and the times, this delightful narrative remains a milestone of Americana. 81 black-and-white illustrations.
Book Synopsis Diary of an Early American Boy 1805 by : Eric Sloane
Download or read book Diary of an Early American Boy 1805 written by Eric Sloane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from a teenager's diary interspersed with the author's comments and illustrations depict the lifestyle and crafts of rural New England.
Download or read book Reverence written by Paul Woodruff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meaning to much that we do, yet the word has almost passed out of our vocabulary. Reverence, says philosopher and classicist Paul Woodruff, begins in an understanding of human limitations. From this grows the capacity to be in awe of whatever we believe lies outside our control -- God, truth, justice, nature, even death. It is a quality of character that is especially important in leadership and in teaching, although it figures in virtually every human relationship. It transcends religious boundaries and can be found outside religion altogether. Woodruff draws on thinking about this lost virtue in ancient Greek and Chinese traditions and applies lessons from these highly reverent cultures to today's world. The book covers reverence in a variety of contexts -- the arts, leadership, teaching, warfare, and the home -- and shows how essential a quality it is to a well-functioning society. First published by Oxford University Press in 2001, this new edition of Reverence is revised and expanded. It contains a foreword by Betty Sue Flowers, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, a new preface, two new chapters -- one on the sacred and one on compassion -- and an epilogue focused on renewing reverence in our own lives.
Book Synopsis Eric Sloane's America by : Michael Wigley
Download or read book Eric Sloane's America written by Michael Wigley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Sloane's evocative oils of America's landscape and material culture shimmer with immense historical and nostalgic appeal. This original hardcover collection gathers nearly a hundred of his finest paintings, with subjects ranging from New England to the American Southwest.
Book Synopsis Eric Sloane's Sketches of America Past by :
Download or read book Eric Sloane's Sketches of America Past written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches of america past: Diary of an early American boy; Museum of early American tools; Reverence for wood.
Book Synopsis The Tools that Built America by : Alex W. Bealer
Download or read book The Tools that Built America written by Alex W. Bealer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating story of early American woodworking enthusiastically describes and clearly illustrates a wide array of axes, saws, planes, hammers, and other implements used by frontiersmen. Over 200 drawings and photographs.
Book Synopsis Eric Sloane's Weather Book by : Eric Sloane
Download or read book Eric Sloane's Weather Book written by Eric Sloane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-10-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amateur weather forecasters (which includes just about everyone) will find this volume an informative and entertaining account of the why and how of the weather." — The Nation In simple language, Eric Sloane explains the whys and wherefores of weather and weather forecasting — and does it in a style that's universally appealing. With humor and common sense shining through in a book that's also lively and informative, Sloane shows readers how to predict the weather by "reading" such natural phenomena as winds, skies, and animal sounds. This beautifully illustrated and practical treasure trove of climate lore will enlighten outdoorsmen, farmers, sailors, and anyone else who has ever wondered what a large halo around the moon means, why birds "sit it out" before a storm, and whether or not to take an umbrella when leaving the house.
Download or read book Old Wood Boat written by Nikki McClure and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Old wood boat remembers the wind. Dilapidated and parted from the sea, she remembers and waits as her mast cracks and blackberry vines creep across her deck. But one day, a family tows her home. Scraped, scrubbed, sanded, and varnished, she is made beautiful and seaworthy again. After libations have been poured out, the family casts off, and old wood boat embarks on adventure once more"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book I Remember America written by Eric Sloane and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America as it was--a simpler, quieter country of farms, villages and handcrafted beauty. Now with this majestic book, Eric Sloane restores it to us in an album of stunning artwork, a passionate rememberance of our American landscape--Cover.
Download or read book American Yesterday written by Eric Sloane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-03-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of engrossing facts and anecdotes vitalized by author Eric Sloane's own pen, this book captures the living legacy of America as seen in "the things that were." According to Sloane, "American Yesterday "explores "our national attic of vanishing ways and obsolete occupations." Impressed by the artistry and sturdy realism of pioneer builders, he takes genuine delight in exploring the unique careers of barber-surgeons, dowsers, tithingmen, sawyers, nailers, plumbum-men, and a great variety of artisans, illustrating the activities, customs, and things created by the people who made their living in "antique ways." Sloane, a devoted student of early Americana, speaks lovingly of the people who spent much of their lives creating wardrobe closets, foot stoves, church pew armrests, grindstones, featherbed patter paddles, charcoal burners, English phaetons, giant hogsheads, drovers' sleighs, windowsill sundials, and other items of long ago. Credited with "doing gallant service, preserving records of the ways and the means of the forefathers who got along well with the resources now long forgotten" ("Springfield Republican"), Eric Sloane has written an immensely enjoyable book that will enchant anyone who takes pleasure in reading about the past and views its artifacts as part of a rich national heritage.
Book Synopsis A Reverence for Wood / Eric Sloane. by : Classics Sloane
Download or read book A Reverence for Wood / Eric Sloane. written by Classics Sloane and published by . This book was released on 1984-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Barns and Covered Bridges by : Eric Sloane
Download or read book American Barns and Covered Bridges written by Eric Sloane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lovingly written book presents reliable records of such vanishing forms of architecture as the American barn and covered bridge. Delightful anecdotes accompany accurate line drawings of barns attached to houses, an "open" log barn in Virginia, a "top hat" barn in North Carolina, and more. Over 75 black-and-white illustrations.
Book Synopsis Japan--culture of Wood by : Christoph Henrichsen
Download or read book Japan--culture of Wood written by Christoph Henrichsen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan ist weltweit der Inbegriff fÃ1/4r traditionelles Bauen mit Holz und vielfältigste Verwendungen dieses Werkstoffes in allen Lebensbereichen. Auf der Grundlage einer langen handwerklichen Tradition entstehen Produkte von unerreichter technischer Raffinesse, materialgerechter Verarbeitung und minimalistischer Gestaltung. Das Buch stellt die Produkte, Techniken, handwerklichen HintergrÃ1/4nde und Herstellungsschritte von rund dreißig Typen vor: von BrÃ1/4cken Ã1/4ber Wohnhäuser, SchiebetÃ1/4ren und Möbel bis hin zu Behältnissen, Werkzeugen und Musikinstrumenten. Im Mittelpunkt der Beschreibung steht die Genese der Gegenstände. Die einzelnen Arbeitsschritte von der Materialauswahl bis zum Oberflächenfinish wurden von dem renommierten Fotografen Roland Bauer vor Ort in faszinierenden Bildsequenzen festgehalten. Zusammen mit den Detailzeichnungen werden so Aufbau und Herstellung der Holzobjekte begreifbar und nachvollziehbar gemacht.
Book Synopsis Weaving the Boundary by : Karenne Wood
Download or read book Weaving the Boundary written by Karenne Wood and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Weaving -- Past Silence -- Part IV. The Naming -- The Naming -- Acknowledgments -- Notes
