How to Build Impossible Things av Mark Ellison

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<p>A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK<br><br>''Sturdy advice, delivered with humour and the occasional splinter'' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>¿Gorgeous . . . contains fascinating insights about working with your hands, the nature of talent, and how to create a meaningful life¿ A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of <i>The Puzzler</i><br><br>¿Exquisite, purposeful, absorbing . . . a book with much to teach us all¿ Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize¿winning author of <i>Homeland Elegies</i><br><br><b><i>¿People think I¿m a genius because I remember my high school math¿</i></b><br><br>When Mark Ellison left high school, no one thought he would go anywhere. A self-proclaimed ¿serial dropout¿, Mark spent his young adult years taking work where he found it. Who would have thought that forty years later he would be regarded as a great carpenter, making a living out of building homes for the rich and famous?<br><br>Full of warmth, wisdom and irreverent humour, this is the story of what carpentry can teach us about t