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This volume presents a diversity of wooden structures, from huge cathedrals to miniature churches and monasteries, large houses, hunters cabins, barns, wind-mills, grim fortress towers, little-known settlements, and famous reconstructions of whole groups of buildings, as in Kiki. The spatial character of these buildings inextricable from their setting and from the way of life that supported them is evoked in a way that has never before been realized, drawing on the authors' unique archive of photographs, drawings and watercolors. The wealth of remarkable documentary material is complemented by the breathtaking color photographs taken by Vadim Cippenreiter, the great Russian photographer, who has for many years recorded with zeal the landscapes and wooden buildings of the far north and east. Davie Buxton, the foremost authority on the wooden churches of easter Europe, bas contributed an illuminating introduc-Kon, written from his own experience as a traveler in those remote regions since 1923.
