The Age of Wood
by Roland Ennos
At Five Books, we love global history and that means we do have a weakness for books that take one element/material/thing and tell its story across time and space. Roland Ennos, a Professor of Biomechanics at the University of Hull, has focused on a material that has never taken its rightful place in the nomenclature of ages we’ve lived through (Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age), possibly because the Wood Age is still ongoing.
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