The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization Hispanic Colorful photographs and historic images

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The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization Hispanic Colorful photographs and historic imagesA smart and surprising (Booklist) expansive history (Publishers Weekly) detailing the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystemincluding human evolution and the rise and fall of empiresin the bestselling tradition of Yuval Hararis Sapiens and Mark Kurlanskys Salt. As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came down from the trees. But how did the descendants of small primates manage