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The Wood Age
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Categorii: Diverse, Diverse

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2021

Editura: William Collins

Tip copertă: Paperback

Nr Pag: 336

ISBN: 9780008318871

Dimensiuni: l: 15.9cm | H: 24cm

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The Wood Age
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When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world.

‘A stunning book on the incalculable debt humanity owes wood…’ John Carey, The Sunday Times

How did the descendants of small arboreal primates manage to stand on our own two feet, become top predators and take over the world?

In The Wood Age, Roland Ennos shows that the key to humanity’s success has been our relationship with wood. He takes us on a sweeping ten-million-year journey from great apes who built their nests among the trees to early humans who depended on wood for fire, shelter, tools and weapons; from the structural design of wheels and woodwinds, to the invention of paper and the printing press.

Drawing together recent research and reinterpreting existing evidence from fields as far-ranging as primatology, anthropology, archaeology, history, architecture, engineering and carpentry, Ennos charts for the first time how our ability to exploit wood’s unique properties has shaped our bodies and minds, societies and lives. He also charts the dislocating effects of industrialism and explains how rediscovering traditional ways of growing, using and understanding trees can help combat climate change and bring our lives into better balance with nature.

In the bestselling tradition of Harari’s Sapiens, this unique history of humanity tells the story of our evolution, our civilisations and our future through the lens of the material that made us. We are products of the Wood Age.

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