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Title: Sermons in Stone
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Stone Walls of New England and New York
Author: Susan Allport
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1581571658
EAN: 9781581571653
ISBN: 9781581571653
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: Countryman Press Inc.
Genre: Home Garden & Pets
Topic: Architecture & Antiques
Release Date: 31/08/2012
Description: What do we actually know about stone walls? about the people who built them, and why? Stone walls are not simply monuments to the skill of Yankee farmers. The historical record makes clear that many were built by slaves, Indians, indentured servants, and children. Sermons in Stone is the surprising and illuminating history of the walls, a story that begins in the Ice Age and that has been shaped by the fencing dilemmas of the nineteenth century, by conflicts between Native Americans and colonists over land use, by American waves of immigration and suburbanization. "Who would think that a history of that humble workaday structure, the stone wall, would be so full of the fascinating, the peculiar, the downright eccentric? But here it is, laid out in a sprightly style and beautifully illustrated by the ink drawings of David Howell." —Dallas Morning News
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 193mm
Item Length: 155mm
Item Width: 18mm
Item Weight: 257g
Release Year: 2012

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