Take shelter : at home around the world / Nikki Tate & Dani Tate-Stratton.

Title:

ISBN:

9781459807426

Personal Author:

Tate, Nikki, 1962-

Publication Information:

Victoria, BC, Canada ; Custer, WA, USA : Orca Book Publishers, [2014]

Physical Description:

48 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour portrait ; 25 cm.

Contents:

Ch. 1: In the ground -- Snug as a bug in a ... cave -- Way back when ... in Iran -- Kekuli houses -- Luxury living underground -- Living (way) down under -- Nestled under a green roof -- Living rough in Las Vegas -- 344 days underground -- Ch. 2: On the move -- Early shelters -- Following the herds -- Rolling down the road -- All aboard! -- Gone cruising! -- At home on the road -- Fly away home -- Houses that you move to -- Building with supersized blocks -- Ch. 3: Houses that live and breathe -- Messy, marvelous mud! -- What's up top? -- Natural building -- The 3Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle -- What's on hand? -- Mountaintop living -- What's keeping you warm? -- Ch. 4: Innovation -- Get creative! -- At the ends of the Earth -- Floating home -- Temporary housing -- Efficient homes -- Ways of living together -- Intentional communities -- Barn raising -- Shelter for everyone -- Resources -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Summary:

A roof, a door, some windows, a floor. All houses have them, but not all houses are alike. Some have wings (airplane homes), some have wheels((Romany vardoes), some float; some are made of straw, some of snow and ice. Some are enormous, some are tiny; some are permanent and some are temporary. But all are home. Take Shelter explores the way people live all over the world and beyond--from the Arctic to the Antarctic, from an underground house in Las Vegas to the International Space Station. Everywhere people live, they adapt to their surroundings and create unique environments, using innovative techniques to provide that most basic of needs: shelter.

Subject Term:

Dwellings

Architecture, Domestic

Added Author:

Tate-Stratton, Dani, 1987-

Audience:

1240L Lexile

Series Title:

Orca footprints.

Series Sequence:

Orca footprints

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