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A Forest Journey The Story of Wood and Civilization John ~ John Perlins book A Forest Journey is a history of forest destruction with stops including Mesopotamia Crete Greece Cyprus Rome Venice England Brazil and America Humans have always used wood in a number of ways but the era of agriculture has shown little mercy for forests and it has turned more than a few of them into barren wastelands and urban wastelands

A Forest Journey The Story of Wood and Civilization by ~ A Forest Journey is an interesting expose of how the rise and fall of civilizations can be attributed to how they treat the environment upon which they depend Perlin goes into great detail explaining examples of past civilizations relation to forests

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Book John Perlin’s “A Forest Journey The Story of Wood ~ Perlin John 2005 A Forest Journey The Story of Wood and Civilization Countryman Press Shortages of wood led to coal becoming king Shortages of wood spurred most industries throughout Britain to convert from wood to coal Some cities like London began burning coal earlier than others

A Forest Journey The Story of Wood and 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

A Forest Journey The Story of Wood and Civilization ~ John Perlins A Forest Journey The Story of Wood and Civilization is book of epic proportions This monumental story does justice to both the beauty and the importance of trees In it Perlin weaves together a 5000 year history of the Wood Age as well as the history of greed selfishness and hubris that accompanied it

A Forest Journey the Story of Wood and Civilization by ~ John Perlin author of A Forest Journey The Story of Wood and Civilization has addressed this issue in an encyclopedic survey Humankind has interacted with forests for the entire existence of Homo Sapiens forests having been our original home

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