Ennos, Roland, <br/><br/>
The age of wood :  our most useful material and the construction of civilization / 
Roland Ennos. 
 - First Scribner hardcover edition. 
 - xvi, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index. 
<br/><br/>Prologue: The road to nowhere -- Wood and human evolution. Our arboreal inheritance -- Coming down from the trees -- Losing our hair -- Tooling up -- Building civilization. Clearing the forest -- Melting and smelting -- Carving our communities -- Supplying life's luxuries -- Supporting our pretensions -- Limiting our outlook -- Wood in the industrial era. Replacing firewood and charcoal -- Wood in the nineteenth century -- Wood in the modern world -- Facing the consequences. Assessing our impact -- Mending our strained relationship. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781982114732 1982114738 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Wood.<br/>Trees.<br/>Woodwork--History.<br/>Building, Wooden--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TA419  / .E66 2020 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>620.1/209