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Tents : architecture of the nomads

Title
Tents : architecture of the nomads / Torvald Faegre ; illustrated by the author.
Author
Faegre, Torvald
Publication
Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1979.

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Description
vi, 167 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
Summary
Includes chapters on Siberian, Lapp and Inuit tents, the tents of the North American taiga and the tipi. Gives details of construction and use.
Subject
  • Tents
  • Nomads
  • tent structures
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 165-167.
Contents
Introduction -- The black tent -- The Middle Eastern mat-skin tent -- The yurt -- Siberian tents -- The lapp tent -- The intuit tent -- Tents of the North American taiga -- The tipi -- Sources -- Bibliography.
ISBN
  • 038511656X
  • 9780385116565
LCCN
77025588
OCLC
  • ocm04137193
  • 4137193
  • SCSB-303988
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library