PE - Mira and Stephen Two great people
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Wed Oct 4 22:08:20 PDT 2000
At 6:49 PM -0700 10/4/00, Mira (Tanya Guptill) wrote:
> > plus the many people whom have contributed to my tent site and
>they are; Professor Peter Alford
> > Andrews,
>
>I dropped a note to a local Nomads list about his new
>book--absolutely AMAZING. Sixteen hundred pages, two volumes, with
>only two of the illustrations being ones that I've seen
>before. He put twenty-two years of research on near eastern tents
>in this book, and also has extensive information on tents on
>carts--both practical and ceremonial tents. It
>was about $150 American, but for those of you interested in
>non-European tentmaking and research, I would count this book as
>being a cornerstone in my library. Most of the
>information is from extant and eyewitness accounts, mostly in
>period. Includes Turkic, Mongolian, Persian, Indian, Arab,
>Chinese, Kyrgyz, etc etc...
>
>Oh yes--It is called FELT TENTS AND PAVILIONS.
I can't find it at Amazon; where do you get it?
--
David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
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