A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization by John Perlin

A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization

John Perlin

464 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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 an...

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