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Don't Dig for Water Under the Outhouse
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Outhouses: Flushing Out America's Hidden Treasures
This new book of photographs by Londie Padelsky offers readers a charming and quirky selection of outhouses from across the western states of America. Each region of the country boasts a different style and no one structure is the same. Some have been lovingly restored and others have aged with time and weather. Like David Stoecklein's series on cowboy gear and ranch style, this new book preserves a time-honored icon of the American West. .
Price: $11.03
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Outhouses
Outhouses contains the history of and musings about that most fundamental of structures, the outhouse, as presented by Roger Welsh, the Will Rogers of tractors and other things farm-related. In Outhouses you will learn the best place to locate your outhouse, which will preferably be down hill and down wind from your house. As we all know, some things in life roll down hill..
Price: $3.25
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Outhouses by Famous Architects
Outhouses have been much ridiculed and maligned structures, thought worthy of only the lowliest of humor and virtually ignored by architectural critics as inconsequential blips in the development of building design. And yet--as architect Steve Schaecher so poignantly reveals in this collection of renderings--architects of genius from time immemorial have used their considerable talents to enhance the beauty and function of the outhouse. His extensive research has uncovered a wealth of stunning outdoor bathroom designs that say much about the history of architecture. Although Schaecher's friends and family have worried about his obsession with bathroom drawings, it is clear that with the publication of this tome, his seat in the annals of architectural history will never be put down. Here are reproductions of stylish (dare we say "perfectionist"?) renderings of Thronehenge, Wright's Flushing Water, the Odor Dame Cathedral, the Taj Ma-stall, Jefferson's Johnicello, Sullivan's Merchants First National Outhouse, Le Corbusier's Bidet Savoye, Fuller's Geodesic Throne, the Hancock's John Building, the Centre Pompidoodoo-the unmistakable outhouse for that weird-looking French museum-and many others. Each is accompanied by insightful historical and analytical text, depending on your definitions of insightful and analytical. The preface, by architectural critic I.P. Daley, will leave you in no doubt of the importance of this completely nonsensical book..
Price: $7.99
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Nature Calls: The History, Lore, and Charm of Outhouses
We've established something of a reputation for offbeat outdoorsy titles, with books like How to Shit in the Woods. And we've done quite well with pictorial histories, such as Tombstones Now, two great traditions meet in one small, quirky, and oddly delightful volume, a photographic guide to the outhouses of America and beyond. Author Dottie Booth has traveled far and wide, through rain, sleet, snow, and heaven knows what else to snap these shots. Her rustic full-color photographs are accompanied by jokes, stories, historical facts, and fun folklore. Presidential outhouses, and outhouses of the rich and famous are lighted, including George Washington's distinguished octagonal and Lyndon Johnson's "Lone Star" model. Truly a unique addition to any architectural or photographic collection..
Price: $7.31
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Great American Outhouse Stories: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Great American Outhouse Stories: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt is a collection of stories from people ages 13-94 from seventeen states across America from New York to California, Texas to Wisconsin. This book combines the rich history that the American outhouse has woven among generations of families with the wit, wisdom and inspiration of those who used the outdoor privies in days gone by. This is an easy-going, easy-to-read, pick-it-up-anytime kind of book that produces chuckles, ignites memories, delights oldsters and educates youngsters..
Price: $12.95
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