Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
Description |
xvi, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Contents |
Prologue: The road to nowhere -- Wood and human evolution. Our arboreal inheritance ; Coming down from the trees ; Losing our hair ; Tooling up -- Building civilization. Clearing the forest ; Melting and smelting ; Carving our communities ; Supplying life's luxuries ; Supporting our pretensions ; Limiting our outlook -- Wood in the industrial era. Replacing firewood and charcoal ; Wood in the nineteenth century ; Wood in the modern world -- Facing the consequences. Assessing our impact ; Mending our strained relationship. |
Summary |
A scholarly and scientific examination of the unrecognized role of trees in the planet's ecosystem reveals wood's unexpected influence on human evolution, civilization, and the global economy. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index. |
Subject |
Wood.
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Trees.
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Woodwork -- History.
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Building, Wooden -- History.
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Building, Wooden. (OCoLC)fst00840948
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Trees. (OCoLC)fst01155984
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Wood. (OCoLC)fst01179191
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Woodwork. (OCoLC)fst01179877
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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ISBN |
9781982114732 (hardcover) |
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1982114738 (hardcover) |
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