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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 634
EAN: 9780881506761
ISBN: 0881506761
Label: Countryman Press
Manufacturer: Countryman Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: September 20, 2005
Publisher: Countryman Press
Studio: Countryman Press




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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 over the millennia.

The book's comprehensive coverage of the major role forests have played in human life--told with grace, fluency, imagination, and humor—gained it recognition as a Harvard Classic in Science and World History and as one of Harvard's "One-Hundred Great Books." Others receiving the honor include such luminaries as Stephen Jay Gould and E. O. Wilson. This new paperback edition will add a prologue and an epilogue to reflect the current situation in which forests have become imperative for humanity's survival. 50 black-and-white photos and illustrations, bibliography, index.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - History 2.0
If you have ever wondered about western civilization, this book is absolutely essential. What exactly is it and how is it different from what came before? How has it spread and why? You will not be bored with densely packed trivialities and dates in this history book. Rather, you will get a truly enlightening overview of what, exactly, has been happening to our planet and the people who have lived on it for the last 8,000 to 10,000 years. It is an absolutely fascinating and therapeutic read.
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Up There With Diamond's "Collapse"--(possibly better)
I've read a number of books on the subject of humanity's relationship to forest and have gotten used to putting them down wishing for more depth.

Or wishing that the book would stay on topic.

I didn't with this book.

This book is right up there with Jared Diamond's "Collapse" in its breadth. From the ancients to the present, "Forest Journey" makes the reader aware of an much overlooked fact: the momentousness of wood.

"Forest" goes out on a ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Compelling first half, disappointing second half
This book is what is says it is: the story of wood and civilization. That sounds a bit odd, but you will be amazed to see how many ways wood contributed to the growth of civilization, as fuel, material for houses, ships and wagons, as support for digging mines, molds for crafting other materials, and so on. Only when coal and oil become available as alternative fuels, and especially when coal can be used to smelt and forge iron, does wood recede somewhat in importance.

The basic structure ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Essential Book About the Role of Man and our Environment
This book is an amazing find. After reading it several years ago we have been giving it as a gift to everyone we know. You will not be able to put it down once you start reading it. So thoughly researched, it will change the entire way you think about the role or forests and trees in the history of man.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - An important and monumental history of fuel and the tragedy of the commons
This is one of the most important books I have ever read.

The relevance for our times of this highly engaging history of how the earliest civilizations to late 19th-century America have exploited wood (primarily as fuel, then as building material) and cleared forests cannot be overstated. Again and again, Perlin shows that the tragedy of the commons repeats itself throughout the patterns of human history, and the cycle has continued to the present day when we have the choice to break it by developing ... Read More




 

 

 

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