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• Book-One Man’s Wilderness

  

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  by Sam Keith - An Alaskan Odyssey
  
  From Proenneke's journal, and with first-hand knowledge of his subject and the setting, Sam Keith has woven a tribute to a man who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond.

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• Build Your Own Log Home

  

  by Roger Hard

  #bb105 Build Your Own Low Cost Log Home

  With this book you'll learn basic construction techniques for both simple one store and more complex multi story dwellings. Shows information on building using both flat on flat and coped methods of building, as well as how to erect a "kit" log shell.

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• Building with Logs

  

  by B. Allan Mackie

  bb115 Building-with-logs

  This revised and expanded edition has been eagerly awaited. One of the few  books on the market we're aware of that explains the shrink-to-fit saddle notch corner system. 

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• Crafting Log Homes Solar Style

  
  bb126-bldg-log-solar Rex and Yvonne Ewing A down to earth guide to building solar-powered log homes, complete with how-to illustrations and photos plus enlightening profiles of log home owners across the country using solar power and/or living off the grid.

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• How to Afford Your Own Log Home

  

  Save 25% Without Lifting a Log (5th Edition)
  by Carl Heldman

  bb135 How to Afford Your Own Log Home

  Completely updated. Tells you everything you need to know to get the log home of your dreams at an affordable price. 

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• Log Building Construction Manual – REVISED

  
  by Robert Chambers bb138 Log Construction Manual - Revised 2016 Considered to be the most up to day instructional book that explains many of the more technical points of handcrafted log work in a scribed fit, natural taper log style.

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• Log Home Secrets of Success

  

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  Log Home Secrets of Succes

  Takes you from dreaming of a log home to actually building and living comfortably in one.

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• Log Homes Made Easy

  

  Contracting and Building Your Own Log Home
  by Jim Cooper

  bb140 Log Homes Made Easy

  One of the most popular owner-builder books. Walks you through the actual construction process.  Now in its 3rd edition.

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• Log Span Tables

  
  Log Span Tables for Floor Joists, Beams and Roof Support Systems A technical, pocket-sized book full of calculations for round logs. bb150log-span

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• The Classic Hewn Log Home

  
  The Classic Hewn Log Home, by Charles McRaven #bb110 The Classic Hewn Log Home Focusing on the hewn face, dovetail corner, chinked style of building,

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• The Owner Built House Living in Harmony with your Environment

  

   by B. Allan Mackie.

  bb157-Owner Built House - Revised Edition

  Allan Mackie's newest book. Allan Mackie believes - and demonstrates in this book - that attitude is at least as important as carpentry skills.

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• The Woodland House

  

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  by Ben Law

  2nd edition which includes the 7 year update.

  Voted 'Best Ever Build' on Grand Designs TV program in the UK.

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• The Woodland Year

  

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  Ben Law

  From the author of 'The Woodland House' comes this book full of coppicing crafts, tempting woodland receipes (how about Bilberry Pancakes?), timber framing, eco-building, nature conservation, species diversity...it's all here.

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