[PDF.02qe] A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization

A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization

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 | #292980 in Books |  2005-09-20 |  2005-09-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.30 x6.10l,1.70 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| How did I not hear about this before?|By Wayne B. Norris|I went to a meeting where the author spoke. I knew I had to read this.

I have long held the notion of "history as a series of ideas propounded by legendary figures" in pretty serious contempt, having known my share of legendary figures and held the view they were mostly legendary by historical accident. So I|From Library Journal|Perlin has accumulated what seems every reference to the use and misuse of forests in the period beginning with Gilgamesh and ending with the 1880 U.S. census. In between, he chronicles the deforestation of Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, t

A contemporary view of the effects of wood, as used for building and fuel, and of deforestation on the development of civilization.

Until the ascendancy of fossil fuels, wood has been the principal fuel and building material from the dawn of civilization. Its abundance or scarcity greatly shaped, as A Forest Journey ably relates, the culture, demographics, economy, internal and external politics, and technology of successive societies ove...

You easily download any file type for your device.A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization   |  John Perlin. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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