Until the ascendancy of fossil fuels, wood has been the principal fuel and building material from the dawn of civilization. Its abundance or scarcity greatly shaped, as A Forest Journey ably relates, the culture, demographics, economy, internal and external politics, and technology of successive societies over the millennia.
The book's comprehensive coverage of the major role forests have played in human life--told with grace, fluency, imagination, and humor—gained it recognition as a Harvard Classic in Science and World History and as one of Harvard's "One-Hundred Great Books." Others receiving the honor include such luminaries as Stephen Jay Gould and E. O. Wilson. This new paperback edition will add a prologue and an epilogue to reflect the current situation in which forests have become imperative for humanity's survival.
- ISBN10 0881506761
- ISBN13 9780881506761
- Publish Date 20 September 2005 (first published 17 September 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher WW Norton & Co
- Imprint Countryman Press Inc.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 464
- Language English