CABIN
Off the Grid Adventures With a Clueless Craftsman
St. Martin's Press · Print & ebook · December 3, 2024
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece.
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- Who it’s for
- A rough-edged cabin story with travel energy, self-scrutiny, and a faintly gifted-for effect.
- Genres
- Personal Memoirs, Carpentry Projects, Nature Writing
- Published
- St. Martin's Press, December 3, 2024
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece. Wit’s End isn’t just a state of mind. It’s the name of a gravel road, the address of a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state.
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To say Hutchison didn’t know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to say he’s a man with nearly zero carpentry skills. Well, used to be. You can learn a lot over six years of renovations. CABIN is the story of those renovations, but it's also a love story; of a place, of possibilities, and of the process of construction, of seeing what could be instead of what is. It is a book for those who know what it’s like to bite off more than you can chew, or who desperately wish to.
Rough Cabin Tales
A rough-edged cabin story with travel energy, self-scrutiny, and a faintly gifted-for effect.
Come here for
- off-grid misadventure with a dry edge
- New England-adjacent cabin lore
Expect
- movement over neat answers
- a keepsake-y object you can hand to someone
Where it sits
| Personal Memoirs | 80% |
|---|---|
| Carpentry Projects | 30% |
| Nature Writing | 18% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Residential Architecture
- Adventurers & Explorers
- Wilderness & Wild Places
- Authors
- Patrick Hutchison
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- December 3, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Residential Architecture