The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees: The Ash in Human Culture and History
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.56 (902 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393354121 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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He wanted to see how many beautiful, handmade objects could be made from it.Thus begins an adventure of craftsmanship and discovery. One frigid winter morning, Robert Penn lovingly selected an ash tree and cut it down. Penn connects our daily lives back to the natural woodlands that once dominated our landscapes.Throughout his travelsfrom his home in Wales, across Europe, and AmericaPenn makes a case for the continued and better use of the ash tree as a sustainable resource and reveals some of the dire threats to our ash trees. This exuberant tale of nature, human ingenuity, and the pleasure of making things by hand chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through wood.. Unless we are prepared to act now and better value our trees, Penn argues, the ash tree and its many magnificent contributions to mankind will become a thing of the past. The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it.Out of all the trees in the world, the ash is most closely bound up with who we are: the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Penn visits the shops of modern-day woodworkerswhose expertise has been handed down through generationsand finds that ancient woodworking techniques are far from dead. He introduces artisans who create a flawless axe handle, a rugged
Penn’s wonderful prose and compelling research put The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees right up there in the league with such classics as John McPhee’s The Survival of the Bark Canoe.” - Rinker Buck, New York Times best-selling author of The Oregon Trail“Ranges freely over intellectual territorymasculinity, nostalgia, identity. Penn’s paean to the many uses of the ash is so well-wrought that I am compelled to take up hurling.” - Nick Offerman“There is no greater debt than that which mankind owes to trees, and Robert Penn proves this brilliantlya highly readable account of the multitude of uses one single ash tree c
letting none go to waste. His journey takes him to a number of Scott Rath This book is a story of a man who cuts down and ash tree and makes as many things as possible with the wood, letting none go to waste. His journey takes him to a number of craftsman in a wide variety of traits. Some of them the last of their kind, more artist than artisan. From wheel wrights, to tool makers, baseball bats, bowels, arrows shafts a. "Swept Away Instantly, and It Got Better From There" according to B. Ruhl. I pre-ordered this book, downloaded it to kindle at 8 this morning and was half way done by noon. I have to put it down and get to work and i'm not happy about that.Devour this book, you won't regret it.. he was most happy with the book Dawn Rupert Gave this to my husband for his birthday on Saturday, and he finished it this morning. Being a woodworker himself, he was most happy with the book. Thought I might enjoy it, too.
. Robert Penn is the author of the best-selling celebration of craftsmanship, It’s All About the Bike. He lives in a wooded valley in South Wales with his family. A writer and journalist, Penn wrote and presented Tales from the Wild Wood, a television series about British woodlands