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2 book compilation the age of wood and the wood age Dedication Prologue: The Road to Nowhere Part 1: Wood and Human Evolution Chapter 1: Our Arboreal Inheritance Chapter 2: Coming Down from the Trees Chapter 3: Losing Our Hair Chapter 4: Tooling Up Part 2: Building Civilization Chapter 5: Clearing the Forest Chapter 6: Melting and Smelting Chapter 7: Carving Our Communities Chapter 8: Supplying Life’s Luxuries Chapter 9: Supporting Our Pretensions Chapter 10: Limiting Our Outlook Part 3: Wood in the Industrial Era Chapter 11: Replacing Firewood and Charcoal Chapter 12: Wood in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 13: Wood in the Modern World Part 4: Facing the Consequences Chapter 14: Assessing Our Impact Chapter 15: Mending Our Strained Relationship Photographs Acknowledgments About the Author Notes References Index Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Prologue: The Road to Nowhere Part 1: Wood and Human Evolution 1: Our Arboreal Inheritance 2: Coming Down from the Trees 3: Losing Our Hair 4: Tooling Up Part 2: Building Civilization 5: Clearing the Forest 6: Melting and Smelting 7: Carving Our Communities 8: Supplying Life’s Luxuries 9: Supporting Our Pretensions 10: Limiting Our Outlook Part 3: Wood in the Industrial Era 11: Replacing Firewood and Charcoal 12: Wood in the Nineteenth Century 13: Wood in the Modern World Part 4: Facing the Consequences 14: Assessing Our Impact 15: Mending Our Strained Relationship Picture Section Notes References Index Acknowledgments About this Book About the Author About the Publisher