Norwegian Wood

Author Lars Mytting
Narrator Nikolas Salmon
Publisher Quercus
Run Time 5 hours and 52 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Camping, DIY: general, Forestry and silviculture: practice and techniques, Gift books.

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What to expect

THE DEFINITIVE WOOD-CUTTER'S BIBLE - THE BESTSELLING, YEAR-ROUND GUIDE TO CHOPPING, STACKING AND DRYING WOOD

"The book has spread like wildfire" Daily Mail

"A how-to book with poetry at its heart" T.L.S.

"A step-by-step guide to preparing your wood store" Independent

Whether you're a seasoned woodcutter, or your passion is yet to be kindled, NORWEGIAN WOOD is an entertaining guide for year-round wood management, and the perfect gift.

Chopping and stacking wood is a pastime where the world makes sense once more. Because our relationship to fire is so ancient, so universal, it seems that in learning about wood, you can also learn about life.

And who better to impart this wisdom than an expert from Scandinavia, where the extreme climate has obliged generations to hone and share their skills with tools, wood and heat production. Lars Mytting has distilled the wisdom of enthusiasts, from experienced lifelong growers, stackers and burners to researchers and professionals of combustion and tree culture.

Part guide to the best practice in every aspect of working with this renewable energy source, part meditation on the human instinct for survival, this definitive handbook on the art of chopping, stacking and drying wood in the Scandinavian way has resonated across the world, with more than a million copies sold worldwide.

More than 175,000 copies sold in English editions. The book that defined a genre.

Critics Review

You could say the book has spread like wildfire. For the world’s first comprehensive book about firewood is high in bestseller lists in Britain and generating heated discussions online and in pubs, offices, cafes and bars – about logs, log-piles and the best fire.

Daily Mail.

A how-to book with poetry at its heart.

Times Literary Supplement

You don’t need to have a wood burning stove or fireplace to be captivated by the craft and lore surrounding a Stone Age method of creating heat.

Boston Globe

As much as Mytting captures the romance of the great outdoors, the nobility of the honest graft of wood chopping, and our close relationship with trees, it is also a step-by-step guide to preparing your wood store.

Independent

Lars Mytting has given us the definitive wood-cutting bible

Trønder-Avisa

Beautiful, important, real

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