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Author | : Jim Crumley |
Publisher | : Birlinn |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2011-10-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0857900900 |
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The Great Wood of Caledon - the historic native forest of Highland Scotland - has a reputation as potent and misleading as the wolves that ruled it. The popular image is of an impassable, sun-snuffing shroud, a Highlandswide jungle infested by wolf, lynx, bear, beaver, wild white cattle, wild boar, and wilder painted men. Jim Crumley shines a light into the darker corners of the Great Wood, to re-evaluate some of the questionable elements of its reputation, and to assess the possibilities of its partial resurrection into something like a national forest. The book threads a path among relict strongholds of native woodland, beginning with a soliloquy by the Fortingall Yew, the one tree in Scotland that can say of the hey-day of the Great Wood 5,000 years ago: 'I was there.' The journey is enriched by vivid wildlife encounters, a passionate and poetic account that binds the slow dereliction of the past to an optimistic future.
Author | : Jeff Jewitt |
Publisher | : Taunton Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9781561582884 |
Download Great Wood Finishes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides step-by-step instructions on wood finishing techniques covering such topics as tools and materials, staining, glazing, and avoiding common mistakes.
Author | : Tim Bird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781910395363 |
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"Long ago the whole of Southern England was covered in forest. Over time, this woodland has been cut back, but small patches remain amidst the suburban sprawl of South-East London. The magic that once filled the ancient forest can still be felt. Memories of the Great North Wood are recorded in the place names - Forest Hill, Honour Oak. Stories are told of the bandits, outlaws and gypsies that once roamed the forest, and their presence can sometimes be sensed when the city is quiet. Tim Bird's longest work to date continues his interest in psychogeography and how memories live in the landscape."--Provided by publisher
Author | : Richard Fortey |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1101875763 |
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From the author of Earth: An Intimate History, an exuberant "biography" of four acres of woodland, evoking a cosmos of living and inanimate things and imagining its millennia of existence A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres of woodland in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire, England. The Wood for the Trees is the joyful, lyrical portrait of what he found there. With one chapter for each month, we move through the seasons: tree felling in January, moth hunting in June, finding golden mushrooms in September. Fortey, along with the occasional expert friend, investigates the forest top to bottom, discovering a new species and explaining the myriad connections that tie us to nature and nature to itself. His textured, evocative prose and gentle humor illuminate the epic story of a small forest. But he doesn't stop at mere observation. The Wood for the Trees uses the forest as a springboard back through time, full of rich and unexpected tales of the people, plants, and animals that once called the land home. With Fortey's help, we come to see a universe in miniature.
Author | : Lawson Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-09-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781912081080 |
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This magnificent and comprehensive illustrated reference to the world's best dive locations includes the Caribbean Sea , Bermuda, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Indo-Pacific, and the Pacific Ocean.
Author | : George Lehman |
Publisher | : Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781565230064 |
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Nature in Wood is a title by Fox Chapel Publishing
Author | : Bob Flexner |
Publisher | : Fox Chapel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 711 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1607654164 |
Download Understanding Wood Finishing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For more than 18 years, Bob Flexner has been inspiring woodworkers with his writings and teachings on wood finishing. Now, from this best-selling author comes the long-awaited and completely updated second edition of UNDERSTANDING WOOD FINISHING-the most practical, comprehensive book on finishing ever published. The first edition of UNDERSTANDING WOOD FINISHING has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and is widely regarded as the bible of wood finishing. "We use UNDERSTANDING WOOD FINISHING as the textbook for our students training to go into the furniture industry," says David Miles, wood technology professor at Pittsburg State University. "It's the best written, most accurate, and most thorough wood finishing book in print-by far."
Author | : Joachim Radkau |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 591 |
Release | : 2013-12-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0745683614 |
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Ötzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction companies. From time immemorial, the skill of the human hand has developed by working wood, so much so that we might say that the handling of wood is a basic element in the history of the human body. The fear of a future wood famine became a panic in the 18th century and sparked the beginnings of modern environmentalism. This book traces the cultural history of wood and offers a highly original account of the connection between the raw material and the human beings who benefit from it. Even more, it shows that wood can provide a key for a better understanding of history, of the pecularities as well as the varieties of cultures, of a co-evolution of nature and culture, and even of the rise and fall of great powers. Beginning with Stone Age hunters, it follows the twists and turns of the story through the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution to the global society of the twenty-first century, in which wood is undergoing a varied and unexpected renaissance. Radkau is sceptical of claims that wood is about to disappear, arguing that such claims are self-serving arguments promoted by interest groups to secure cheaper access to, and control over, wood resources. The whole forest and timber industry often strikes the outsider as a world unto itself, a hermetically sealed black box, but when we lift the lid on this box, as Radkau does here, we will be surprised by what we find within. Wide-ranging and accessible, this rich historical analysis of one of our most cherished natural resources will find a wide readership.
Author | : Joseph Wood Krutch |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2005-08 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1587298805 |
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Originally published in 1956, The Great Chain of Life brings a humanist’s keen eye and ear to one of the great questions of the ages: “What am I?” Originally a scholar of literature and theater, toward the end of his career Joseph Wood Krutch turned to the study of the natural world. Bringing his keen intellect to bear on the places around him, Krutch crafted some of the most memorable and important works of nature writing extant. Whether anticipating the arguments of biologists who now ascribe high levels of cognition to the so-called lower animals, recognizing the importance of nature for a well-lived life, or seeing nature as an elaborately interconnected, interdependent network, Krutch’s seminal work contains lessons just as resonant today as they were when the book was first written. Lavishly illustrated with thirteen beautiful woodcuts by Paul Landacre, an all-but-lost yet important Los Angeles artist whom Rockwell Kent called “the best American wood engraver working,” The Great Chain of Life will be cherished by new generations of readers.
Author | : Robert Beatty |
Publisher | : Disney Electronic Content |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2018-07-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1368010601 |
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Beatty comes a spooky, thrilling new series set in the magical world of Serafina. Move without a sound. Steal without a trace. Willa, a young nightspirit of the Great Smoky Mountains, is her clan's best thief. She creeps into the homes of day-folk in the cover of darkness and takes what they won't miss. It's dangerous work—the day-folk kill whatever they do not understand. But when Willa's curiosity leaves her hurt and stranded in a day-folk man's home, everything she thought she knew about her people—and their greatest enemy—is forever changed.