Complete Guide to Building Log Homes
 Outdated Material: ... I have been building regular frame construction houses and wanted to try something new by building some log homes in the mountains of Colorado where I live. I bought about every book that Amazon had to offer on log home [... more]
$29.95
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Young Abe Lincoln: The Frontier Days, 1809-1837
Harness paints a vivid picture of Abe Lincoln's boyhood as his family migrated across America searching for a better life: meeting peddlers and pioneers and swinging his ax to build a cabin in the Indiana woods. Through vibrant color illustrations and [... more]
$9.92 (Save 38%)
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Hannah and the Mountain: Notes Toward a Wilderness ...
Memoir of a young couple's dreams and losses as they struggle to build a cabin and begin a family in the woods of northern Idaho. [... more]
$15.89 (Save 28%)
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Hitachi Bob The Builder: Snowed Under, The Bobblesberg ...
Bob travels to snowy Bobblesberg and build a cabin but a huge snowstorm gets in their way. Introducing new characters Benny and Zoomer the Snowmobile. [... more]
$17.99
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Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape
pPreface/ppPrologue: One Man's Journal/ppThree Landscapes in New England History/ppbThe Cultural Landscape of New England/bbr /br /Views of the Nineteenth-Century Countrysidebr /br /Daily Lifebr /br /The Farmer as Herobr /br /Meadows and Mowersbr /br / [... more]
$17.51
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Hannah Fowler
Samuel Moore and his daughter Hannah set out for the border country with a party led by George Rogers Clark but left to follow the Kentucky River to Boone's Fort. As the story opens, Hannah is nursing her father, injured when an axe slips and cuts his [... more]
$1.99
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The Last River Rat: Kenny Salwey's Life in the Wild
Most Honest Accounting of "A River Rat": I have known Kenny since 1980, although I've only started reading this story I am extremely comfortable with the pace and grace Mr. Bestul uses. Kenny is everything the book says he is a very hard [... more]
$12.95
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Next Spring An Oriole (Stepping Stone, paper)
Next Spring an Oriole: This book is about a family traveling a two-month hard journey going two miles per hour in a canvas covered wagon from Virginia to Michigan. This took place in 1837, April 3. The family brought a skillet and a musket. The main [... more]
$3.99
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Building a Log Cabin Retreat: A Do-It-Yourself Guide
Not very helpful: The preface and first chapter are a bizarre rant against municipal governments, building departments, and utility providers. I haven't seen so much name-calling since my first marriage. The remaining chapters discuss building techniques, [... more]
$15.00
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Henry Builds a Cabin
Amazon.com Review: When Henry gets a bee in his bonnet to build a cabin in the woods, his friends all help out--mostly with advice. Henry, a bear character based on 19th-century writer Henry David Thoreau, hears from his pal Emerson as they raise the [... more]
$15.00
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Cabins: A Guide to Building Your Own Nature Retreat
Terrific Informational Read - NOT Blueprints or Plans, Though: I'm tending to agree with both sides here! And I think it's a great book. I have been reading building and cabin books for a year (we're building this Summer). This one is pretty great - a [... more]
$29.95
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Book Description: In the winter of 1864, five seamen aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the remote and icy Auckland Island, 285 miles south of New Zealand. An isolated speck in the Southern Ocean, it is a godforsaken place, with winds howling at sixty [... more]
$24.95
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