Living With The Desert: Working Buildings On The Iranian Plateau
Author:   Elisabeth Beazley ,  Michael Harverson
Publisher:   Orchid Press Publishing Limited
ISBN:  

9789748304649


Pages:   120
Publication Date:   11 June 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Living With The Desert: Working Buildings On The Iranian Plateau


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For centuries man has adapted his way of life to the harsh conditions of the Iranian Plateau by the use of simple technology. This text studies how devices such as the wind-catcher, the dome, the ice-house and wind and watermills were adapted to make life comfortable under desert conditions. For centuries man has adapted his way of life to the harsh conditions of the Iranian Plateau by the use of simple technology. This text examines this process in detail, studying not the grand religious and military structures, but those of the ordinary people, and how such devices as the

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Author:   Elisabeth Beazley ,  Michael Harverson
Publisher:   Orchid Press Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Orchid Press Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 23.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 33.00cm
Weight:   0.708kg
ISBN:  

9789748304649


ISBN 10:   9748304647
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   11 June 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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The Plateau; buildings; water; ice-house; wind-catchers; watermills; windmills; pigeon towers.

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