The Museum of the Wood Age by Adams, Max

The Museum of the Wood Age (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781788543507)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Museum of the Wood Age by Adams, Max

The Museum of the Wood Age

$32.00
The Museum of the Wood Age by Adams, Max

The Museum of the Wood Age

$32.00
Format: Hardcover
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A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood - the material that shaped human history.

As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. It has been our partner in the cultural evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny. Tracing that partnership through tools, devices, construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores the role that wood has played in our own history as an imaginative, curious and resourceful species.

Beginning with an investigation of the material properties of various species of wood, The Museum of the Wood Age investigates the influence of six basic devices - wedge, inclined plane, screw, lever, wheel, axle and pulley - and in so doing reveals the myriad ways in which wood has been worked throughout human history. From the simple bivouacs of hunter-gatherers to sophisticated wooden buildings such as stave churches; from the decorative arts to the humble woodworking of rustic furniture; Max Adams fashions a lattice of interconnected stories and objects that trace a path of human ingenuity across half a million years of history.

Author: Max Adams
ISBN-10: 1788543505
ISBN-13: 9781788543507
Publisher: Apollo Publishing International
Language: English
Published: 02/20/2024
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.39w x 1.21d
By Max Adams
By Max Adams
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Max Adams is a writer, archaeologist and woodsman whose work explores themes of landscape, knowledge and human connectedness with the earth. He is the author of Admiral Collingwood, Aelfred's Britain, Trees of Life, the bestselling The King in the North, In the Land of Giants and The First Kingdom. He has lived and worked in the North East of England since 1993.
Max Adams is a writer, archaeologist and woodsman whose work explores themes of landscape, knowledge and human connectedness with the earth. He is the author of Admiral Collingwood, Aelfred's Britain, Trees of Life, the bestselling The King in the North, In the Land of Giants and The First Kingdom. He has lived and worked in the North East of England since 1993.

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