A Forest Journey The Story Of Wood And Civilization
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A Forest Journey
Author | : John Perlin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Deforestation |
ISBN | : UOM:39076001988620 |
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Chronicles the destruction of the world's forests as a result of overdependency on wood as a building and energy source, and points out the resultant declining soil productivity, flooding, and depletion of firewood supplies.
A Forest Journey The Story of Wood and Civilization
Author | : John Perlin |
Publsiher | : The Countryman Press |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2005-09-20 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781581579154 |
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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.
A Forest Journey
Author | : John Perlin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Deforestation |
ISBN | : OCLC:1310735626 |
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Forests
Author | : Robert Pogue Harrison |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2009-05-08 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780226318059 |
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In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the forest, as a source of wonder, respect, and meaning, disappears daily from the earth. "Forests is one of the most remarkable essays on the human place in nature I have ever read, and belongs on the small shelf that includes Raymond Williams' masterpiece, The Country and the City. Elegantly conceived, beautifully written, and powerfully argued, [Forests] is a model of scholarship at its passionate best. No one who cares about cultural history, about the human place in nature, or about the future of our earthly home, should miss it.—William Cronon, Yale Review "Forests is, among other things, a work of scholarship, and one of immense value . . . one that we have needed. It can be read and reread, added to and commented on for some time to come."—John Haines, The New York Times Book Review
The Age of Wood
Author | : Roland Ennos |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-12-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781982114749 |
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A scholarly and scientific examination of the unrecognized role of trees in the planet's ecosystem reveals wood's unexpected influence on human evolution, civilization, and the global economy.
Eating Dirt
Author | : Charlotte Gill |
Publsiher | : Greystone Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781553657927 |
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Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in Canadian forests. In this book, she examines the environmental impact of logging and celebrates the value of forests from a perspective of some one whose work caught them between environmentalists and loggers.
Let It Shine
Author | : John Perlin |
Publsiher | : New World Library |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2022-02-15 |
Genre | : House & Home |
ISBN | : 9781608687916 |
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The definitive history of solar power and technology Even as concern over climate change and energy security fuel a boom in solar technology, many still think of solar as a twentieth-century wonder. Few realize that the first photovoltaic array appeared on a New York City rooftop in 1884, or that brilliant engineers in France were using solar power in the 1860s to run steam engines, or that in 1901 an ostrich farmer in Southern California used a single solar engine to irrigate three hundred acres of citrus trees. Fewer still know that Leonardo da Vinci planned to make his fortune by building half-mile-long mirrors to heat water, or that the Bronze Age Chinese used hand-size solar-concentrating mirrors to light fires the way we use matches and lighters today. With thirteen new chapters, Let It Shine is a fully revised and expanded edition of A Golden Thread, Perlin’s classic history of solar technology, detailing the past forty years of technological developments driving today’s solar renaissance. This unique and compelling compendium of humankind’s solar ideas tells the fascinating story of how our predecessors throughout time, again and again, have applied the sun to better their lives — and how we can too.
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt
Author | : Alan Mikhail |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2011-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139499552 |
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In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Egypt and throughout the empire. In revealing how Egyptian peasants were able to use their knowledge and experience of local environments to force the hand of the imperial state, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt tells a story of the connections of empire stretching from canals in the Egyptian countryside to the palace in Istanbul, from the forests of Anatolia to the shores of the Red Sea, and from a plague flea's bite to the fortunes of one of the most powerful states of the early modern world.