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Wood: Craft, Culture, History
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by Harvey Green
Sales Rank: 242621
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List Price: $27.95
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 496 pages
Published by: Viking Adult October 19, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0670038016
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0670038015
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.3 x 1.7 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
From Booklist
Histories of materials continue to rise in popularity, exemplified by this excursion into the uses and aesthetics of wood. Green, a student and practitioner of the craft of woodworking, spans the remarkable range of objects created from trees throughout human history. In addition to defining terms, such as the distinction between hard- and softwoods, Green reiterates throughout this fluent and pleasing work the uniqueness of wood, which contributes to its attraction. No two pieces are alike in appearance, and specific species of trees are preferred for specific purposes: ash for baseball bats, oak for ships, cedar for furniture. Whatever object Green investigates, he discovers its layers of historical, commercial, environmental, and artistic significance, not least in the substitution for wood by other materials. Despite this trend, however, wood is always more appealing to sight and touch than its competition: nobody loves a titanium golf club the way they do a persimmon-headed driver. Sophisticated but approachable, Green's work richly satisfies curiosity about the subject. Gilbert Taylor
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Product Review
“Like a walk along a quiet forest rail, reading this book provides opportunity after opportunity to reflect upon the meaning of trees and the things that come from them.”
— Henry Petroski, author of The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Reader Reviews
This book addresses a huge topic, so huge it is difficult to review a book on it. FWIW a few notes: The easiest way to approach the topic is by organizing it around good illustrations: in this book the illustrations are limited to line-drawings and b&w photographs, printed on the same paper (not glossy) as the text. The illustrations do add to the book but not all that much. Some browsing proves to be rather hurtful: whenever the author touches on an aspect I know something about I am noticing mistakes. By this time I have come to accept that a book like this will muff the distinction between hard- and softwoods, but it also happens when the author discusses more mundane matters. All in all, I would recommend finding a copy of "The International Book of Wood" rather than buying this.
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