Reviews for The Old Barn Book; A Field Guide to North American Barns and Other Farm Structures

The average rating for The Old Barn Book; A Field Guide to North American Barns and Other Farm Structures based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-05-16 00:00:00 Helen Matteson Normally, I love this kind of book! I would have loved to learn more about barns and other outbuildings in general from all over america- but the author seems to have tunnel vision. He uses absolutes (that this shape came from this country, for example) where I know as a student of archaology it's simply not true. He generalizes about things as if they were true of all structures all over the US, but really he doesn't COVER all of the US, it's mostly the east coast with a few mid-states in there. It was a very dissapointing book. The diagrams were not so useful, there weren't enough pictures or diagrams to demonstrate what he happily rambled on about in words, and much of it was inaccurate. I'll look to better books than this one, for my 'old building' fix.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-05-09 00:00:00 Scott Mcdonald This is a great reference book. And, if you've lived around farm country, you know it can be very interesting to see all of the different barns and other buildings on farms. This book really lets you find out more about why they are different and about the history of barns. And, my dad is the co-author. :)