Annular Books – Books, book reviews and other printed material
A mix of book reviews and other related features connecting printed matter with wood and forests. Including paper, printing and publishing with the forest sector. Go to Annular Compendium for Annular’s book resource page.
The archive of book reviews is split into three sections:
I – Wood and forest culture
2018A cultural history of Sitka Spruce by Ruth Tittensor. Book review by Bernard Planterose.
2005Medicine tree from the Tropics
The Miraculous Fever Tree by Fiametta Rocco – reviewed by Renee Lertzmann
Fourth Door Review 7 – not available online
II – Timber architecture, engineering and materials
2023CLT: A Stage Design Primer & Blank Speculations on CLT
Cross Laminated Timber: Anthony Thistleton reviews two new books on CLT
2022dRMM’s Jonas Lencer reviews a timely book arriving in the midst of the growth in engineered hardwood’s popularity. Authored by Konrad Merz, Anne Niemann, and Stephan Torno – Detail Books.
III – Novels, literature, poetry and other writing
2021Four views from across the related worlds of architecture, timber promotion, woodwork and forest activism on Richard Power’s The Overstory
In Unstructured 10
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