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Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part 1
Fifty-Thousand-Year-Old Wood Lives and Breathes Again
In Quest of the World’s Most Expensive Board Foot
Oak: The Breakfast of Civilizations
The Wood Freak Show
Bamboo: The Grass That Thinks It’s a Wood
Rescuing Redwood the Hard Way
Logging the Industrial Forest
Wood: How It Got Here, How Trees Make It
Part 2
A Chainsaw Artist a Cut Above the Rest
My Seven Awkward Minutes with the Man Who Carves Ferraris
Woodworking Blind—Just Like Everyone Else
How Much Wood Would a Wood Collector Collect?
Nakashima: The Pavarotti of Woodworking Still Sings
My Almost-Perfect Interview with Woodworker Jimmy Carter
Part 3
As the Lathe Turns: Making Golf Tees with the Master
Tool Junky Heaven
The Table Saw That Couldn’t Cut a Hot Dog in Half
Belt Sander Racing: A Saga of True Grit, Speed, and Victory (sort of)
Part 4
Stradivarius Violins: The Sweetest Sound You’ve Never Heard
The Making of Sweet Baby James’s Guitar
Drums: And the Beat Goes On and On and On…
The Steinway D: Twelve Thousand Pieces of Indestructible Music
The National Music Museum: Six Hundred Zithers, B. B. King, and One-Ton Drums
Part 5
Baseball Bats: A David-and-Goliath Affair
Golf: Persimmon Scores a Hole in One
Tossing Telephone Poles and Other Curious Sports
The Art of the Pool Cue
Tennis: The Racket about Wood Racquets
Lumber Jacks and Lumber Jills
Part 6
Living in Trees: From Papua, New Guinea, to Washington State
The History of Housing from Log Cabin to, Well, Log Cabin
Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Construction Lumber
A Dirty Rotting Shame
Winchester House: The Thirty-Six-Year Remodeling Project
Part 7
When Wood Was Everything and Everything Was Wood
The Lindbergh Kidnapping, the Ted Bundy Tree, and Forensic Wood
Pens and Pencils: Getting to the Point
A Barrelful of Coopers, Kegs, and Tradition
True Relics of the Cross
Fifty Billion Toothpicks Can’t Be Wrong
Part 8
Ten Great Moments in Catapult History
A Tale of Two Warships: One Unsinkable, One Unsailable
The Twang of the Bow
White Pines and War
Pine Roots versus Atomic Bombs
Part 9
The Spruce Goose Made of Birch
Go Fly a Person: Kites for Work and Play
Trains: Riding the Wooden Rails
In Search of the Lost Ark
The Song of the Gondolier
Part 10
Venice: The City Perched on Wood
Wood Pipe Takes a Bow
Building a Staircase to Heaven
Academy Award Nominees for Outstanding Performance by a Wooden Structure
Roller Coasters: Möbius Strips of Screaming Wood
Epilogue
Notes
Resources
Bibliography
Searchable Terms
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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