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First published in the United States of America by Random House, Inc., 1997
Published by arrangement with Random House, Inc.
This edition with a new preface published in Penguin Books 2008

Copyright © Michael Pollan, 1997, 2008
Drawings copyright © by Charles R. Myer & Company, 1997
All rights reserved

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS:
Pollan, Michael.
A place of my own: the education of an amateur building / by Michael Pollan.
p. cm.
ISBN: 1-4406-5564-2
1. Huts—Design and construction—Popular works. 2. Space and time—Popular works. I. Title.
TH4890.P65      1997      690’.837—dc20       96-35101

Title page photo copyright © 1997 by John Peden

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