{"product_id":"9781489390721","title":"The Mud House: How Four Friends Built a Place in the Australian Bush","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour friends. One block of land. No power tools.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One day,” Philip said, “I'd like to build something bigger... Like a house. We could just buy a block of land, you know, the four of us, and have a go”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was just an idea. Then it started to take shape. In this frank, funny and thought-provoking memoir, Richard Glover describes how he and his friend Philip and their partners built a house in the bush on weekends. It was a huge and exhausting undertaking... not least because they decided to use mudbricks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Imagine this—with mudbrick you have a building that is made out of the very earth it stands on... there is another thing: the stuff is free. Once we buy the land we’ll have no money left. This way we can get started as soon as we have the block.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the end it took three years simply to make the bricks. As for the house itself...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the process gave Richard the opportunity to examine things he had never quite reconciled to himself—big things like what it means to be a man, the nature of male relationships, fatherhood—and to challenge himself in the kind of blokey environment he had rejected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all, the mud house proved that even if it “wasn’t the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel” there is nothing like the satisfaction of making something with your own hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bolinda Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054524514544,"sku":"9781489390721","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781489390721_p0.jpg?v=1763641918","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781489390721","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}