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Reader Reviews
If you are interested in the rustic or Adirondack style, you are no doubt already familiar with Ralph Kylloe, the author of several fine books related to this style. "Cabin Collectibles," Kylloe's latest offering, purports to offer "a broad overview of antique cabin collectibles." The photographs, taken by Kylloe, are beautiful, though many of the scenes depicted appeared previously in another of his books, "Rustic Style." The text, however, is disappointing. A chapter on canoes and paddles reads like a high school sophomore's report on the evolution of canoes in North America. Statements like: "The teardrop shapes of canoe paddles and the graceful, sensual, sweeping lines of canoes carry emotional overtones," and "Men's snowshoes tended to be larger than women's. Small snowshoes were also made for children," offer little Insight to the would-be collector. Insipid statements like, "Human beings have an incredible propensity to collect things," regularly appear in the text and then, annoyingly, again as captions for photographs. While Kylloe offers a few gratuitous remarks on collecting, "You don't have to have 10,000 twig stands to fill every last corner of your house...," one could realistically expect something a bit more helpful from a person who boasts of collecting in less than two months "more than 350 pairs of antique skis and poles, 350 pairs of antique snowshoes, 200 fishing creels, 250 antique sleds, 200 antique camp signs, hundreds of old bamboo fly rods, and more rustic stuff than I can remember." The book's greatest shortcoming is its failure even to mention so many wonderful cabin collectibles: mounted birds and fish, paintings and prints of rural scenes and nature, camp blankets, fishing reels and rods, souvenir pennants, balsam pillows, and indian busts, to name but a few. While some of these items appear in the photographs, they are not mentioned in the text. If you are thinking about purchasing this book, don't. Get a better return for your money with "Adirondack Style, Cabin Fever, Inside Log Homes," or even Kylloe's "Rustic Style." Any one of these books offers better ideas on cabin collectibles.


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