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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