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A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder was Michael Pollan 's second book, after Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (1991). In 2008 it was re-released and re-titled as A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams . The book begins by outlining how Pollan reached the decision to build a "writer's house" himself.
- Michael Pollan
- 320
- 1997
- 1997, 2008
Michael Pollan shares his experience of designing and building a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut property, a place where he could read, write and daydream. He explores the craft of building, the nature of "houseness" and the role of architecture, literature and philosophy in his quest for a place of his own.
With this updated edition of his earlier book A Place of My Own, readers can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own — a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands.
- Michael Pollan
- Paperback
4. März 1997 · 'A Place of My Own' is an early Pollan book where he relates his experiences building a writing shed, a small backyard 104-square-foot outbuilding where he can dream, escape, imagine and write. It is part: A Room of One's Own + Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance + Walden + Shop Class as Soulcraft .
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- Michael Pollan
A Place of My Own is the biography of a building. In a sense it is the biography of every building, but happens to dwell on one in particular: the not-so-primitive hut I built in the woods behind my house in New England, as a place to read and write and daydream. This is not a famous or
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30. Dez. 2008 · In A Place of My Own, he turns his sharp insight to the craft of building, as he recounts the process of designing and constructing a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut property—a place in which he hoped to read, write, and daydream, built with his own two unhandy hands.
- Michael Pollan
