A Small Cabin That One Person Can Build (ISBN 1419615939)

Useful Information:
I enjoyed reading the book -- I even enjoyed the footnotes. I thought that the author had a nice writing style and was easy to read. I found the content interesting since it provided information on how to build a simple cabin from what one could harvest off the land. From this standpoint, this looks like a unique book, since it does not assume that you have lots of money to purchase everything from your local lumberyard. As someone who has some familiarity with tools, but not a lot, I also learned much from the description of the tools and products that went into the cabin. For example, I had not heard about paper and glue snake traps before nor did I know that you could shoot snakes with 22-shot shells. This is the type of practical and useful information that a city person like me would not know about, but would be extremely valuable in actually living off the land. I found the cabin to be an impressive accomplishment for a single person, but I also felt that I could actually build such a cabin using the descriptions in the book and the tools and products described.

SAVE YOUR MONEY:
Save your money. This book offers minimal information. B & W photos are dark and almost uninterpretable. There are no real drawings or prints to quantify the design. The professional reviews were most surely the most gratuitous verbage I've ever been so sorry to read. Again, save your money. Go to the library if they were unfortunate enough to purchase it. Then if you like it, you can have mine for the shipping.