The log cabin book
Subtitle: a complete builder's guide to small homes and shelters
By: Oliver Kemp ; illustrations by the author
Edition: Dover edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780486810782
Subjects: Amateurs' manuals; Log cabins; Design and construction
Work titles: Wilderness homes
Description: "This vintage guide from over a century ago offers timeless, practical advice on building log cabins. Plans and directions for simple structures are easy enough for amateurs to follow. Well-illustrated advice ranges from selecting a site to safe, efficient methods of cutting down trees for building materials to furnishing and decorating interiors"--
Notes: "This Dover edition, first published in 2016, is an unabridged republication of the second (1911) revised edition of the work, originally published by The Outing Publishing Company, New York, in 1908, under the title and subtitle Wilderness Homes : a Book of the Log Cabin"--Title page verso.