Simple shelters : tents, tipis, yurts, domes and other ancient homes / written and illustrated by Jonathan Horning ; with additional material by Brock Horning.

Primary forms -- Tensioned coverings -- Black tents -- More black tents -- Simple benders -- Bigger benders -- Woven and conical -- Tipis -- More tipis -- Kathe -- Yurts -- More yurts -- Yaranga and chorama dyu -- Earth lodges and pit houses -- Log cabins -- Hogans -- Bamboo huts -- Bamboo sophistication -- Rounded timber-framed -- Squared timber-framed -- Adobe mud brick -- Straw bales -- Igloos -- Geodesic domes -- More complex domes -- Orientation and symbolism -- Cladding and finishing.

"Examines various basic shelters from all over the world: mud-brick adobe structures, desert nomads' tents, travellers' quick fixes, timber frame buildings and modern innovations including strawbale houses and geodesic domes"--Jacket.