Treehouses have always held a special place in the British imagination. This richly illustrated and entertaining guide will enchant readers with its stories of treehouses and their builders past and present throughout the world. The most extraordinary buildings have been erected in trees: pubs, churches even a railway station! The author has himself lived in treehouses. A forestry officer, he has built treehouses in places as far apart as the Solomon Islands and over. His advice on designing and constructing treehouses is thus founded on real practical experience. Treehouscs have often provided a retreat for those seeking to escape from affairs of state. Churchill built his children a secret house in a tree at chartwell. Elizabeth II was proclaimed Queen in a treehouses in Kenya, Victoria spent a happy holiday sketching in a Tudor tree folly at Pitchfork Hall. The first Elizabeth and the debauched Roman Emperor Caligula alike held riotous banquets in treehouses. Anthony Aikman reveals the pleasures of treehouses in history and literature. Local legend claims that Charles II hid in an oak tree at Boscobel and that Robin Hood made his headquarters at Major Oak in Sherwood Forest. Tarzan of the Apes and Pooh Bear are both renowned for their occupancy of treehouses. This beautiful book is at once a unique survey and a heartfelt appreciation of that delightful creation, the treehouse.

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An eccentric artist and adopted grandson set off from Tangiers on a on a journey that takes them to some of the worlds more unusual locations. This includes sailing the Mediterranean, crossing the Empty Quarter of Arabia exploring the Solomon islands and ending in Tibet

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A child sets out on a spiritual odessey, his conscience his only compass. On the way into the unknown, he encounters people from all walks of life: each on his own quest; each seeking answers to questions that have been asked from time immemorial. With the plight of homeless Cambodian children and the fate of their turbulent country as the backdrop, this illustrated little book is a treatise on human nature, religious beliefs and ideologies. Full of allusions and ironies, it doesn't seek to enlighten anyone. it simply deals one's norms and values a knockout.

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What Anthony Aikman had seen and been involved at first hand as a medical volunteer in a remote part of North Sumatra, Indonesia, is translated into this moving story that epitomises the recurring conflict between age-old rural community life and the demands of modern society. The book graphically describes how the traditional way of life in a small village of farmers and fishermen is destroyed when they are forced off their land to make way for "development".

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