The Wood Age
The Wood Age
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The Wood Age.
Roland Ennos' essential investigation The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history uncovers how the world's most vital and threatened material, wood, has shaped our human experience from the earliest foragers to the modern four poster bed. This book challenges the traditional model of historical development and reveals an innovative wooded history of the world.
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A stunning book on the incalculable debt humanity owes wood…’ John Carey, The Sunday Times.
In a journey to appreciate how much wood matters – and has done since prehistory – Roland Ennos takes the reader chronologically through four key phases: the impact of wooded habits on the lives of primates; human emergence and the discoveries of fire and woodwork; wood’s role in an environment both pre- and post-industrialisation; and lastly, the possible future of wood in an increasingly technologized world.
When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world.
Wood. We burn it to create fire. We fashioned it into tools. We built homes, road, boats and cathedrals; became explorers, inventors, industrialists. We transformed the world.
In the bestselling tradition of Harari's Sapiens, this unique history of humanity tells the story of our evolution, our civilisations and our future through the lens of the material that made us. We are the products of the Wood Age.
Hardback.
Non-fiction; Environment/Sustainability.
336 pages.
Written by Roland Ennos.
Published by Harper Collins Publishers.
159 x 240 x 32mm.
Roland Ennos is a visiting professor of biological sciences at the University of Hull. He is the author of successful textbooks on plants, biomechanics and statistics, while his popular book Trees, which is published by the Natural History Museum, is now in its second edition. He is an enthusiast for natural history, archaeology and early music, and lives with his partner and several hundred ferns near Hull, in East Yorkshire.
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