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full-colour illustrations and photographs

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then the ghost has failed and dissipates

Yet this Odysseus is no hero

On The Roof: A Thatcher's Journey by Tom Allan #joyce and from wartime nostalgia to'An excellent, beautifully written book' Patrick Galbraith, Sunday Times 'A rich and hugely enjoyable celebration of the local, the vernacular and traditional a beautifully written craftsman's memoir' Daily Mail Thatched roofs are like living organisms: each one a web of repair, replacement and alteration, shaped, dressed and re moulded by every pair of hands that works on it. Thatching is one of the world's oldest crafts an ancient trade that roots