Inhaltsverzeichnis: Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Prologue: The Road to Nowhere -- Part 1: Wood and Human Evolution -- Chapter 1: Our Arboreal Inheritance -- Chapter 2: Coming Down from the Trees -- Chapter 3: Losing Our Hair -- Chapter 4: Tooling Up -- Part 2: Building Civilization -- Chapter 5: Clearing the Forest -- Chapter 6: Melting and Smelting -- Chapter 7: Carving Our Communities -- Chapter 8: Supplying Life's Luxuries -- Chapter 9: Supporting Our Pretensions -- Chapter 10: Limiting Our Outlook -- Part 3: Wood in the Industrial Era -- Chapter 11: Replacing Firewood and Charcoal -- Chapter 12: Wood in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 13: Wood in the Modern World -- Part 4: Facing the Consequences -- Chapter 14: Assessing Our Impact -- Chapter 15: Mending Our Strained Relationship -- Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Copyright.