1969
First Published
4.18
Average Rating
160
Number of Pages
Viking, 1969. Hardcover with dustjacket. A manual of wood identification with forty actual wood specimens, An essential book for any woodworker. Great idea, well written and well organized. The way that the 40 samples are bound into the book is ingenious.
Avg Rating
4.18
Number of Ratings
28
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Author
Herbert L. Edlin
Author · 2 books
Born in 1913, Herbert Edlin attended Manchester Grammar School, then studied forestry at Edinburgh and Oxford universities. After managing rubber plantations in Malaysia, he spent five years in the New Forest of Hampshire, planning timber harvesting, raising young trees, and replanting cleared land. After 1945 he edited technical publications for the Forestry Commission, compiled guides to forest parks in Scotland and Wales, and made first-hand studies of woodland crafts. Widely travelled, he was the author of twenty-seven books on outdoor subjects.
