Reverence for Wood

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The special knowledge of which wood is suited to which task the ready identification of native trees the reverence for wood the instinctive knowledge that wood can warm the soul as well as the body -- these virtues of a bygone age are revived in Eric Sloanes remarkable work. Heavily illustrated with a section on identification of nearly sixty native trees A REVERENCE FOR WOOD provides an illuminating view of the resource that made possible so much of the early settlement of North America.