{"product_id":"9781788167444","title":"On The Roof : A Thatcher's Journey","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Allan, Tom \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eRural crafts\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 15 May 2025 by Profile Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 23 | 250g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An excellent, beautifully written book' Patrick Galbraith, Sunday Times 'A rich and hugely enjoyable celebration of the local, the vernacular and traditional ... a beautifully written craftsman's memoir' Daily MailThatched roofs are like living organisms: each one a web of repair, replacement and alteration, shaped, dressed and re-moulded by every pair of hands that works on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThatching is one of the world's oldest crafts - an ancient trade that roots us in nature, as Tom Allen discovered when he quit an office job to become an apprentice in Devon. Now a master of the trade, in On the Roof he goes in search of its history and future, meeting fellow thatchers, from the son of a lobster fisherman who thatches with a dune grass in the Hebrides, to a Syrian refugee who found peace among the seagrass roofs of Denmark, to one of the first women to master Japan's 5,000-year-old thatching tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEye-opening, beautifully told and revealing a tradition hand-shaped over centuries, On the Roof is a story of how we live with the land and how we have chosen to treat it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46829738852611,"sku":"9781788167444","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781788167444_553a1cb4-f2a5-40cd-82a8-1c58034e0033.jpg?v=1748253460","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781788167444","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}