{"product_id":"on-the-roof-1","title":"On The Roof","description":"'An excellent, beautifully written book' Patrick Galbraith, Sunday Times \n\n'A rich and hugely enjoyable celebration of the local, the vernacular and traditional ... a beautifully written craftsman's memoir' Daily Mail\n\nThatched roofs are like living organisms: each one a web of repair, replacement and alteration, shaped, dressed and re-moulded by every pair of hands that works on it.\n\nThatching is one of the world's oldest crafts - an ancient trade that roots us in nature, as Tom Allen discovered when he quit an office job to become an apprentice in Devon. Now a master of the trade, in On the Roof he goes in search of its history and future, meeting fellow thatchers, from the son of a lobster fisherman who thatches with a dune grass in the Hebrides, to a Syrian refugee who found peace among the seagrass roofs of Denmark, to one of the first women to master Japan's 5,000-year-old thatching tradition.\n\nEye-opening, beautifully told and revealing a tradition hand-shaped over centuries, On the Roof is a story of how we live with the land and how we have chosen to treat it.","brand":"Profile Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54249451716952,"sku":"9781788167444","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781788167444.jpg?v=1765659638","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/on-the-roof-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}