Barns Author:Charles Leik This breathtaking visual celebration of barns captures the true essence of these rural landmarks -- rustic, yet dignified, homey yet grand, inviting yet mysterious. These enduring monuments of our agrarian past have continued to feed our imagination and pique our curiosity. — Page after page of magnificent photographs will take you back to ... more »the time when the farm was the center of our livelihood. Feel the power and the romance of the most enduring structures of rural life. Explore every aspect and every angle of barns, from the smallest details to the most majestic landscapes. Marvel at these wondrous examples of practical architecture that are a unique marriage of form and function.