by Spike Carlsen

Collins / HarperCollins
ISBN-13 978-0-06-137356-5
$24.95 Hardcover
Natural and Social History of Wood

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ONE BOOK — ONE TREE: For each copy of this book sold, a tree will be planted in rural Tanzania to help reforest this country. Help Spike make this project a big success by selling lots of books!

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• Author photo (JPG)
• Book cover photo (JPG)
• Book photo – 3-D version (JPG)
• “Wood” photo 1 (JPG)
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• “Wood” photo 3 (JPG)
  Photo credits: “photos from A SPLINTERED HISTORY OF WOOD, used with permission of Collins/HarperCollins Publishers”
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About the Book

Here is the biography of nature’s greatest gift and the source of heat, shelter, tools, recreation, and even the air we breathe. It is impossible to imagine a world without wood. From true relics of the cross to Derek Jeter’s bat, the invention of toothpicks to the famed Stradivarius violin, medieval catapults to the construction of Levittown, wood has played an essential role in nearly every aspect of human existence. But this is no dull dissertation on the scientific properties of wood; instead, Spike Carlsen has traveled thousands of miles and interviewed hundreds of wood users and enthusiasts to carve out a comprehensive and dynamic history of wood’s global impact and its personal significance to people in all walks of life.

Spike Carlsen is the former Executive Editor of The Family Handyman magazine where he wrote hundreds of articles on home improvement and oversaw the creation of dozens of books including the revised Readers Digest, Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual. He currently writes “Ask Spike” for Backyard Living magazine. He and his wife Kat have five children and live in Stillwater, Minnesota.