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The wood age : How one material shaped the whole of human history By Roland Ennos.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : William Collins, 2021.Edition: 1Description: xvi, 318 pages , 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780008318840
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 620.12 ENN-W
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
Summary: Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our human experience from the earliest foragers to the modern four poster bed. 'A stunning book on the incalculable debt humanity owes wood...' John Carey, The Sunday Times
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Book Book Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 620.12 ENN-W (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available DCB3957

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index.

"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

Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our human experience from the earliest foragers to the modern four poster bed. 'A stunning book on the incalculable debt humanity owes wood...' John Carey, The Sunday Times

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