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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | With a history going back at least one thousand years, the sauna is ready for a new generation of enthusiasts seeking health, pleasure, and peace of mind, and Rob Roy is ready to recruit! "If the sauna is just a bath, then Buckingham Palace is just a house." So writes sauna expert and intrepid do-it-yourselfer Roy in this new, updated version of The Sauna. This completely revised and expanded edition of The Sauna contains everything you ever wanted to know about the famous "Finnish bath." In this inviting book, Roy shares his infectious enthusiasm for the sauna and provides a complete, detailed guide to sauna building, along with resources for equipment and supplies. The Sauna is replete with history, tradition, health benefits, instructions for proper use and maintenance, as well as step-by-step instructions for building a variety of cordwood masonry saunas and, new to this edition, conventionally wood-framed saunas. The beautiful colour photographs, also new to this edition, will inspire you to create your own sauna haven. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Rob Roy | | Paperback: | 256 pages | | Publisher: | Chelsea Green Publishing | | Publication Date: | November 12, 2004 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1931498636 | | Product Length: | 9.98 inches | | Product Width: | 7.02 inches | | Product Height: | 0.56 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.18 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.9 inches | | Package Width: | 7.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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30 of 35 found the following review helpful:
 Rob Roy is a great builder (of cordwood masonry) Feb 19, 2006
By Zachary Nowak
"Green Door Publishing"
It's important to know before you buy this book, or his book about Underground Homes, that they use the cordwood masonry building technique, more or less to exclusion. Roy has saved this technique from oblivion but he tries to pass off his books as "complete" in the sense of including various techniques. They don't. I'm not saying not to get them, but remember that caveat.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Somewhat of a Disappointment Dec 05, 2007
By A. Iovino
When I decided that an outdoor wood-burning sauna was in my future I sought a book that would contain detailed information on sauna construction, stove usage and evaluation, and the like. Instead, Roy's book, though enjoyable, was far less than a "..complete guide.."
An enormous amount of time is spent on cordwood construction (inappropriate for us living in hardwood areas) and virtually little or no space devoted to selecting, evaluating and using the many stove options that are available on the market.
I am certain that Mr. Roy could write such a book. His passion for and knowledge of the sauna is apparent throughout the book. It's a disappointment that this "complete guide" fell short of my expectations.
Though I don't feel that I wasted the book's purchase price (I am now more enthusiastic about my yet-to-be-built sauna than ever), I wish that Roy's book would have imparted more of his obvious knowledge about those matters that are of interest to us non-cordwood oriented neophytes.
14 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 A fine book Apr 18, 2007
By M. Glickman, author of Beyond the Breath: Extraordinary Mindfulness Through Whole-Body Vipassana Meditation (Tuttle Publishing)
I wouldn't feel compelled to write a review of this book, except for the low star rating of the only other reviewer of this book [at this writing anyhow]. This is an excellent book for building a free-standing sauna--as long as cordwood masonry building style works for you. Rob Roy is the master of this technique and written much about it in a number of books. He has an easy style and knows his material. But yes, if you're looking to build a wood-only sauna, look elsewhere.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Some useful information, but Not a balanced guide May 31, 2008
By A. Tilley
"Tilley"
We bought this book hoping it would give us the basic information we needed to build an outdoor sauna (ex. materials list, basic dementions, review of different types of stoves, etc). While there was some of this information, most of the book was dedicated to Cord Wood construction. This was interesting, but not the way we wanted to build. I wish there had been a more balanced amount of information on all the different types of sauna construction (log, cord wood, conventional framing, etc.)
Best book on how to make a sauna Sep 12, 2011
By sundancer
I love ALL the books this author has written. Great pictures, easy instructions, clearly well thought out. My husband and I will use this book when we build our sauna this Spring. Glad I bought it.
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