A Place of My Own

<b>“A glorious piece of prose . . . Pollan leads readers on his adventure with humor and grace.” <b>—<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><br><br>A captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and the meaning of modern work</b><br><br><i>“A room of one’s own: Is there anybody who hasn’t at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn’t turned those soft words over until they’d assumed a habitable shape?”</i><br><br> When Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was the acclaimed bestseller <i>Second Nature</i>. In <i>A Place of My Own, </i>he turns his sharp insight to the craft of building, as he recounts the process of designing and constructing a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut property—a place in which he hoped to read, write, and daydream, built with his own two unhandy hands.<br><br>Michael Pollan''s unmatched ability to draw lines of connec