A Reverence for Wood - Hardcover

Sloane, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1607964759 ISBN 13: 9781607964759

Publisher: www.bnpublishing.net, 2012

Synopsis

Refreshingly written, delightfully illustrated book remarks expansively on the resourcefulness of early Americans in their use of this valuable commodity - from the crafting of furniture, tools, and buildings to the use of such by-products as charcoal and medicine. "One of Sloane's best books." -Library Journal.

About this title

About the Author:

Sloane, born in New York City and educated at Yale, most of his life has been spent in New England, where he has combined a fascinating range of interests into a colorful and highly successful career, primarily as author-illustrator of more than 24 books on American history, arts, and artifacts.

From the Inside Flap:

knowledge of which wood is suited to which task, the ready identification of native trees, the reverence for wood, the instinctive knowledge that wood can warm the soul as well as the body -- these virtues of a bygone age are revived in Eric Sloane's remarkable work. Heavily illustrated, with a section on identification of nearly sixty native trees, A REVERENCE FOR WOOD provides an illuminating view of the resource that made possible so much of the early settlement of North America.

About this edition

• Publisher: www.bnpublishing.net
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1607964759
• ISBN 13: 9781607964759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 114