The Stonemason

Author : Andrew Ziminski
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473663954
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stonemason written by Andrew Ziminski and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on many of our greatest monuments. From Neolithic monoliths to Roman baths and temples, from the tower of Salisbury Cathedral to the engine houses, mills and aqueducts of the Industrial Revolution and beyond, The Stonemason is his very personal history of how Britain was built - from the inside out. Stone by different stone, culture by different culture, Andrew Ziminski (with his faithful whippet in tow) takes us on an unforgettable journey by river, road and sea through our countryside showing how the making of Britain's buildings offers an unexpected and new version of our island story. 'My school history lessons were focused around flat pages of facts, events and royal personalities, but for me it was the material aspects of the past, the tangible remnants left behind that were thrilling, and that it was these buildings and places, and learning how they worked, that really brought the past alive.'

Author : Ian Cramb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811769879
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Stonemason written by Ian Cramb and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Ian Cramb was a fifth-generation stonemason who relied on traditional methods to create and restore beautiful stone structures. In this do-it-yourself manual for homeowners, masonry contractors, and restoration specialists, Cramb drew on his fifty years of life experience in the craft to cover restoration techniques for historic structures in the U.S. and Britain. The book covers various types of stone, stone-cutting, and traditional mortar mixes for walls, foundations, and buildings.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679762809
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stonemason written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an American family. The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have been for generations. Ben Telfair has given up his education to apprentice himself to his grandfather, Papaw, a man who knows that "true masonry is not held together by cement but...by the warp of the world." Out of the love that binds these two men and the gulf that separates them from the Telfairs who have forsaken—or dishonored—the family trade, Cormac McCarthy has crafted a drama that bears all the hallmarks of his great fiction: precise observation of the physical world; language that has the bite of common speech and the force of Biblical prose; and a breathtaking command of the art of storytelling. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Ian Cramb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615496559
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stonemason's Gospel According to Ian Cramb written by Ian Cramb and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Maude
Publisher : Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781848855472
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guided by a Stone-Mason written by Thomas Maude and published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly illustrated, accessible book presents a completely new look at cathedrals, abbeys and churches through the eyes of a vastly experienced working stonemason. Thomas Maude uses well-chosen historical and technical information, colorful anecdotes and his hands-on knowledge of building structures and technique to convey the excitement which they hold in store. This remarkable and engaging book will help any visitor understand and enjoy the medieval ecclesiastical buildings of Britain.

Author : A. De Lamartine
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385201829
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stone-Mason of Saint Point written by A. De Lamartine and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author : Michael Lynn Crews
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477314709
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books Are Made Out of Books written by Michael Lynn Crews and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that "books are made out of books," but he has been famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other writers. Yet his novels and plays masterfully appropriate and allude to an extensive range of literary works, demonstrating that McCarthy is well aware of literary tradition, respectful of the canon, and deliberately situating himself in a knowing relationship to precursors. The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University acquired McCarthy's literary archive in 2007. In Books Are Made Out of Books, Michael Lynn Crews thoroughly mines the archive to identify nearly 150 writers and thinkers that McCarthy himself references in early drafts, marginalia, notes, and correspondence. Crews organizes the references into chapters devoted to McCarthy's published works, the unpublished screenplay Whales and Men, and McCarthy's correspondence. For each work, Crews identifies the authors, artists, or other cultural figures that McCarthy references; gives the source of the reference in McCarthy's papers; provides context for the reference as it appears in the archives; and explains the significance of the reference to the novel or play that McCarthy was working on. This groundbreaking exploration of McCarthy's literary influences—impossible to undertake before the opening of the archive—vastly expands our understanding of how one of America's foremost authors has engaged with the ideas, images, metaphors, and language of other thinkers and made them his own.

Author : Chris Daniels
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781847973856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Craft of Stonemasonry written by Chris Daniels and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The craft of stonemasonry will never be a dying art. This book introduces the world of the artist craftsman, from the basic essentials of selecting stone, developing tool skills and techniques, to producing set work pieces of the highest quality to become part of the built heritage.

Author : Charles McRaven
Publisher : Storey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780882669762
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stonework written by Charles McRaven and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes instructions for creating such projects as retaining walls, entryways, stone bridges, and stone steps, discussing the types of stones and their sources; handling, shaping and cutting stones; and selecting the appropriate stone for a project

Author : Billy Childish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956594532
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stonemason written by Billy Childish and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Childish left school in 1976 at the age of 16, an undiagnosed dyslexic with no qualifications. Because of his lack of education he was refused entry to art school without them even looking at his portfolio. With no alternatives on offer, he entered Her Majesty's Dockyard, Chatham, as an apprentice stonemason. This, his fifth novel, takes more raw material from the author's own life and allows it to develop and twist into its own fictional truths as seen through the eyes of Childish's dysfunctional anti-hero, Gus Claudius.