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Dry Stone Walls

Basics, Construction, Significance

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A uniquely comprehensive source of knowledge, combining cultural history with a guide to plants and animals finding their habitat in dry stone walls and a practical step-by-step building manual


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Edited by Environemental Action Foundation
2018
Hardback
472 pages, 362 color and 187 b/w illustrations
20 x 29.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-85881-813-3

Dry stone walls are a critical component of the landscape in Switzerland and many other countries. They support the cultivation of agriculture and livestock, and they are also integral to the ecosystem. And, in many locations across Switzerland, they are in need of restoration by those with a thorough understanding of their roles and vast range of types and purposes.

Drawing on the copious research and practice of the Environmental Action Foundation, Dry Stone Walls is a uniquely comprehensive work on the topic, combining cultural history with a guide to plants and animals that find their habitat in such structures and a practical, step-by-step manual to the building and maintenance of dry stone walls. Richly illustrated with more than four hundred photographs and drawings, including many in color, the book contains a wealth of advice for both the planning of new dry stone walls and the care of existing ones, as well as information on structural analysis and the organization of building sites. The book will serve as a guide for future generations everywhere to this ancient practice that is in danger of extinction.

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„This amazing book is also a DIY manual, right down to detailed advice on how to lift and move stones. (…) Dry Stone Walls brings together in one beautifully produced book a series of articles and photographs that will change your perception of stone walls so casually passed on a countryside walk or briefly glimpsed through the window of a speeding vehicle.” Sean Sheehan, The Prisma

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