Outhouse by Any Other Name | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Harding
Publisher: August House
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 612304
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 087483578X
Dewey Decimal Number: 976.7
EAN: 9780874835786
ASIN: 087483578X
Publication Date: November 25, 1999
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Product Description
Photographer Thomas Harding, armed only with his pinhole camera and a keen eye for the unusual, traveled thousands of miles of backroads and lanes to record the remnants of a vanishing genre of folk architecture--the outhouse. Harding boldly stepped where others might fear to tread. He followed the elusive drain from the Bible (Deuteronomy 23:12-13), to the Romans (indoor facilities over streams of water), to the lowly rural American outhouse. The intrepid Harding traced a little-known pipe-dream ....
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A real gem July 19, 2000
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I found this book quite by accident several months ago, and since then have given over ten as gifts. I never thought I'd like a book about outhouses, but this one is a real gem. The photos are very creative and evocative: Thomas Harding knows his stuff, as his years with the Bachrach Photographers can attest to. He's paired these lovely photos (of not-so-lovely subjects) with quotes from great literature, pulled out of context in the most hilarious ways. My favorite one is a picture of a "two-holer" paired with a classic Edmund Waller quote: "My joy, my grief, my love,/Did all within this circle move!" Give this book a chance, you'll be glad you did.
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