The international book of wood

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THE INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF WOOD

WOOD - most familiar of all materials — has been the versatile medium of craftsman and home-builder, shipwright and sculptor, violin-maker and engineer for as long as Man has walked the Earth. It has been used to make' clocks and paper, food and fabrics, warships, church spires, toothpicks and dance-floors — a thousand items familiar and strange — all brought to life in the pages of this book.

WOOD is the mirror of Man — reflecting in countless ways his restless activity, his boundless ingenuity, his aspirations and pastimes; reflecting, too, his changing view of the world about him as he realized, in the hick of time, that this seemingly endless resource is a vulnerable heritage, demanding his
concern and constant attention.

THE INTERNATIONAL BOOK OF WOOD takes you deep into the heart of wood — explaining the differences between the species, illutrating their remarkable structures, describing their -strengths and weaknesses and relating the personality of each wood to its uses. How large is the world's supply of wood? Where does each variety come from? What happens to it between forest and carpenter, or as it breaks down into its chemical building blocks ? More than a thousand illustrations
in colour explain Man's use of wood — discovering half-forgotten traditions and revealing astonishing new applications of „wood.

A magnificent fully illustrated index details the sources, properties and uses of 144 of the world's most important timbers — a living guide to the identification of timbers and the trees from which they are obtained.

In English