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    <![CDATA[A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder]]>
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    <![CDATA[At a turning point in his life, writer Michael Pollan found himself dreaming of a small wood-frame hut in the woods near his house--a place to work, but also a &quot;shelter for daydreams.&quot; Ordinarily more at home among words than things, the author was seized by the idea of building the place himself, with his own two unhandy hands. <em>A Place of My Own</em> recounts his two-and-a-half-year journey of discovery in an absorbing narrative that deftly weaves the day-to-day work of design and building--from siting to blueprint, from the pouring of foundations to finish carpentry--with reflections on everything form the power of place to shape our lives to the question of what constitutes &quot;real work&quot; in a technological society.<p><p>A book about craft that is itself beautifully crafted, linking the world of the body and material things with the realm of mind, heart, and spirit, <em>A Place of My Own</em> has received extraordinary praise:</p></p>]]>
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