The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization State & Local History of the U.S. all gather to a lowly

all gather to a lowly stable in Bethlehem for the birth of a very special baby

Mary Lennox

broken-hearted socialite Magnolia Parks enters the scene and Julian finds himself entangled with her

the person Edward holds most dear

The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization State & Local History of the U.S. all gather to a lowlyA 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