A Reverence for Wood
A Reverence for Wood by Eric Sloane, published by Courier Corporation on February 18, 2004, is a reprint edition comprising 112 pages in English. This book explores the significant role that wood has played in shaping American life and culture. Through Sloane’s charming illustrations and insightful text, readers will discover the diverse qualities and uses of wood, highlighting its importance from the tools and implements crafted by early Americans to the structures that defined their communities.
In this engaging work, Sloane discusses various aspects of wood, including its aesthetics and practical applications in carpentry. The narrative reflects on how wood was integral to daily life, from the furniture people used to the materials for building and preserving food. Topics such as the resourcefulness of pioneers and the multiple uses of wood, including medicinal applications and charcoal production, are presented with clarity. A Reverence for Wood offers a factual and historically accurate perspective that will appeal to those interested in history, technology, and materials science.
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This refreshing and delightfully written book underscores the important role that wood has played in the development of American life and culture. Charmingly illustrated with author Eric Sloane’s own sketches, the text illuminates with rare insight the enormously varied and useful qualities of wood.
Covering such topics as the aesthetics of wood, wooden implements, and carpentry, Sloane remarks expansively and with affection on the resourcefulness of early Americans in their use of this precious commodity. From cradle to coffin, the pioneer was surrounded by wood. It was used to make tools, fence the land, and build barns. People sat at wooden tables on wooden chairs and ate from wooden dishes. Charcoal, one of the many by-products of wood, was used to preserve meat, remove offensive odors, and produce ink. The bark of various trees was processed to make medicine.
An entertaining, factual, and historically accurate book, A Reverence for Wood will delight woodcrafters and lovers of Americana. It is “one of Eric Sloane’s best books.” — Library Journal
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