Retreats: Handmade Hideaways to Refresh the Spirit

by G. Lawson Drinkard III

Book Overview

This work opens the shutters on the hideaways of sixteen fascinating people who designed their one-of-a-kind solitary retreat. The havens include a garden tree house, a mountain cabin, an attic room,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087905798X
• ISBN13: 9780879057985
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.8" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Inspiring, Very Well Done Book

I have picked it up for the photos over and over again, and read it more than a few times. It's pretty darn cool. To be clear, it is not a DIY information sort of book (but I don't think the title even suggests that anyway). Neat dreamy title, neat dreamy pictures, neat dreamy book. I bought this when we were first thinking about building a cabin, and it was really inspiring. Great pictures of lots of kinds of retreats, and really cool stories about people who created them. Thanks to the author for including all kinds of camps ... from tiny sheepwagons to tar-paper shacks and from log cabins to treehouses.

"Retreats" review

I recently had a cabin built. If you can't stay away from yours, or think you wouldn't if you had one, this is THE book!

Wonderful wish maybe it could happen book

Just a beautiful book, not only in appearance but in content. Open up this book on a January day in the dead of winter and dream, dream, dream. Of course, as the author states dreaming is the beginning. It opens up all the possibilities and options for one's own retreat. I enjoyed it immensely as I'm sure you will. Live life to it's fullest.

Retreats, as a vacation or a lifestyle.

This is a beautiful book ... beautiful in concept, execution, and expansiveness. It's more than a book: it's a piece of art, it's a philosophy, it's shares a way of being more fully alive. It can be read as a building manual, as an inspiration to greater nourishment of self and community, or as an introduction to a score of unique, creative, and hopeful individuals, all of whom are living their lives fully, I've read it cover to cover and enjoyed every nuance of it. I shared it with a dozen friends, all of whom had different but meaningful experiences with it. Read and enjoy the discussions that it will engender.