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ISBN-10: 0936070803
ISBN-13: 9780936070803
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Publish Date: 03/12/2019
Dimensions: 8.60" L, 8.60" W, 0.70" H

Driftwood Shacks: Anonymous Architecture Along the California Coast

Hardcover

Price: $19.95

Overview

Lloyd Kahn has been hiking and camping on Northern California beaches for the last dozen or so years and, given his background in publishing books on building, it’s only natural that he would notice the unique and whimsical beach shacks constructed by anonymous builders.

Here are some 60 structures, shaped by materials lying on the beach, and ephemeral in the sense that they are built without nails, and don’t last long — victims of wind, waves, and high tides. (All of the ones depicted are now gone.)

There are also photos of beach sculptures, seaweed, seashells, birds, sea lions, whalebones, waves, surfers, fishermen, and sunsets, as well as photos from a 3-day backpacking trip along the remote “Lost Coast.”

A book for beachcombers and beach lovers everywhere, all of whom share a deep love for the ocean and its surroundings.

–Lloyd Kahn

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...A glorious portfolio of quirky makers and dreamers...
-New York Times

Praise for Shelter by Lloyd Kahn

"An embarrassment of riches"
-Manas

How very fine it is to leaf through a 176-page book on architecture – from baliwicks to domes – and find no palaces, no pyramids or temples, no cathedrals, skyscrapers, Kremlins or Pentagons in sight... Instead, a book of homes, habitations for human beings in all their infinite variety."
-Edward Abbey, Natural History Magazine

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Details

ISBN-10: 0936070803
ISBN-13: 9780936070803
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Publish Date: 03/12/2019
Dimensions: 8.60" L, 8.60" W, 0.70" H
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