Mud House: An Adventure in Building

This frank‚ funny and thought-provoking memoir describes how Richard and his friend Philip built a mud brick house in the bush on weekends. This huge and exhausting undertaking -- it took eight years simply to make the bricks -- examines what it means to be a man‚ the nature of male friendships‚ improvised housebuilding techniques‚ and the extraordinary accomplishment of making something with your own hands.