This canopy can be attached to a Tri-Beam Steel Stand, $93.05; rope hammocks start at $85.

A day spent in your shorts lying in the shade in a rope hammock reading a book is a day well spent.

Two slaves easily carried such a boulder when it was slung in a rope hammock and as thousands of slaves were employed the work progressed with rapidity.

To keep the quartermasters from being idle, Gissing had them knit him a rope hammock to be slung in the chart-room.

Newton, who sits rather awkwardly in a rope hammock, holds a large rice paper umbrella at the same time that she reads a newspaper.

In the couple's Rome residence, he used rope hammocks and rough coco matting, according to an article in The New York Times in 1975.

If they've heard of it at all, Northerners identify Pawleys with the rope hammocks made there.

"I'm a wealthy plutocrat," he said, as he laid the rope hammock under the tent.

"I prefer a good rope hammock myself," he said equably.

"It looks like it wouldn't sag after use," he said, citing photographs of people in rope hammocks who appear to be scraping the ground.