

The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees
Author: Robert Penn
Narrator: Robert Penn
Unabridged: 7 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 07/26/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, Crafts & Hobbies, Nature, Ecology
Author: Robert Penn
Narrator: Robert Penn
Unabridged: 7 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 07/26/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, Crafts & Hobbies, Nature, Ecology
Robert Penn is a journalist who writes for the Financial Times the Observer, the Sunday Times, and Conde Nast Traveller, as well as numerous cycling publications. He also wrote and presented the BBC documentary Ride of My Life: The Story of the Bicycle. Robert lives in the Black Mountains, South Wales, with his wife and three children.
Penn's love for trees, ash trees in particular, is wonderful to read about. This book is a series of adventures as he traces the uses of common English ash, Fraxinus ecelsior throughout history & much of the western world. It is similar enough to American white ash, Fraxinus_americana that it is als......more
Well I read this in three days which says something good about it. Learnt a lot about the properties of ash wood. It could be a so much better book. It needs proper illustrations, both line drawings and colour photographs. It needs an index. In places it is boringly technical yet the tone is generall......more