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Customers find the book informative and interesting, providing a valuable resource on colonial building techniques and tools. They appreciate the excellent illustrations and writing style. The detailed tool and practice descriptions make it easy to reproduce the building process. Overall, customers describe the book as a useful reference for Colonial School projects and prep work.
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Explores the tools and technology that the American colonists use to build homes that could stand the test of time.
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: Paul
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very Interesting Info!
Review: If you don’t typically like Documentaries, this might not be the book for you, but I thought it was a very interesting read!
Reviewer: Marco Antonio Abarca
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An Exploration of Early American Material Culture
Review: Most of the books that explore Colonial American vernacular architecture are more interested in definig styles and building uses. The focus of “Home Building” is in the tools and technology used by early American colonists. C. Keith Wilbur tells this story by following the construction story of one particular home. He begins with the initial harvesting of the timber and lovingly follows the story to the last finish carpentry detail.C. Ketih Wilbur follows in a long tradition of great American illustrators of material culture. Wilbur’s illustrations are not as fine as Edwin Tunis’ or as lyrical as Eric Sloane’s illustrations. What Wilbur has going for him is the sheer volume of carefully crafted illustrations he includes in his work. I finished this book both impressed by the ingenuity of our colonial ancestors and the technical virtuosity of Wilbur’s illustrations. This is a great book and I look forward to collecting Wilbur’s other volumes in the “Living American History” series.
Reviewer: All Ten
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An all-around fun book
Review: To piggy-back on what another reviewer said, this book reminds me of both Eric Sloan’s books and the WoodWright series by Roy underhill.This isn’t an in depth academic work, but it is a great reference book chock full of information on the old timey way of building. Wilbur’s writing and line drawings are excellent. You could easily reproduce the tools and techniques if you chose to recreate the building process described by the author.Just an all around fun to read and have book.
Reviewer: Robert Sinclair, Jr.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent Book
Review: Excellent book with lots of illustrations and fanciful details. Gives a profound insight on 19th century home building. They did things better back then.
Reviewer: Andy Cook
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: on time, wonderful book
Review: Great book, on time, in excellent condition
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great addition to heritage information
Review: This is probably the most comprehensive account of 18th century building techniques that I have read. Although, understandably it concentrates on American adaptations of ancient European building philosophy and methodology. It’s clear explanations make a great contribution to architecture in the heritage area. The tools and practices outlined in great detail are those which applied worldwide until the end of the 19th century. Although written by a medico he certainly knew his stuff in this field.
Reviewer: Rizwan Khan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: excellent book :: must have
Review: excellent book :: must have
Reviewer: Metal Ram
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: AMAZING BOOK FOR PREPING OR COLONIAL SCHOOL PROJECTS!!! 😲
Review: This book is where its at!! Not only dose it tell you (with illustrations) how to build these building they even show you the tools AND EVEN HOW TO MAKE THE TOOLS!! (Again with illisatrathion).
Reviewer: Tarik
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: merci
Reviewer: Lucio Degani
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Libro carino nella media ha uno stile che non mi piace tanto ma è interessante speravo ci fossero più disegni
Reviewer: Savvy customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good book
Reviewer: S. M.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This kind of book does well to capture a time in history that needs to be preserved.
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