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A Forest Journey by John Perlin
John Perlin the author of A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization published by Harvard University Press, will be on campus on December 5 -7, 2006. This, his second visit to Virginia Tech, is sponsored by the Department Wood Science and Forest Products and the College of Natural Resources. Perlin will present a seminar entitled "A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization" at 2 PM on Wednesday December 6th in Fralin Hall. He is speaking to classes and will meet with faculty and students while here. He will give a seminar and have book signing at 7 PM on December 5th at the Science Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke, where there is an exhibit on his work. Those interested in meeting with Perlin, hearing him speak, having him speak to a class, or getting more information on the exhibit should contact Professor Tom Hammett 540-231-2716 or email: mailto:himal@vt.edu.
Here is what others have said about the author and his current work: John Perlin is author of A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization, which recounts how wood, the principal fuel and building material from the Bronze Age through the 19th century, played a major role in the culture, demographics, economy, internal and external politics, and technology of the great civilizations of Sumer, Assyria, Egypt, China, Knossos, Mycenae, Classical Greece and Rome, Western Europe, and North America. Harvard University Press has chosen A Forest Journey as one of the Press'' "One-Hundred Great Books" of all time. After five printing runs at Harvard University Press, a second edition has recently been published by The Countryman Press.
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