Items related to Woodcolliers and charcoal burning
- PublisherWeald & Downland Open Air Museum
- ISBN 10 090525905X
- ISBN 13 9780905259055
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages96
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Woodcolliers and Charcoal Burning
Published by
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
ISBN 10: 090525905X
ISBN 13: 9780905259055
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Softcover
Seller: Devils in the Detail Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only, Please See Below For Further DetailsCONDITION ? GOOD some wear/foxing/marks to cover, foxing to fore edges, pages in good condition, shipped from the UK. Seller Inventory # 168/JH/185P 9055
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Woodcolliers and Charcoal Burning
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:090525905X. Seller Inventory # 4849864
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Woodcolliers and charcoal burning
Published by
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
ISBN 10: 090525905X
ISBN 13: 9780905259055
Used
Softcover
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 1.11. Seller Inventory # 090525905X-2-4
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Woodcolliers and Charcoal Burning
Published by
Weald & Downland Open Air Museum and Coach House Publishing Limited, 1978
ISBN 10: 090525905X
ISBN 13: 9780905259055
Used
Soft cover
First Edition
Seller: Wild & Homeless Books PBFA, Bridport, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A scarce, detailed and very interesting book about an industry that had almost died out in the early 20th century but is now much revived and even in vogue. Take, for example, Ben Short's recent memoir Burn about life as a charcoal burner in West Dorset (Ben lives and works close to where Wild & Homeless Books is based in Bridport). There are very few good books about charcoal burning because its practitioners usually prefer just to get on with it! They can be great talkers, not so often great writers. Anyway, Lyn Armstrong's book packs a lot into its 96 pages, 46 black and white plates and a frontispiece for a start. An introduction covers the historical background, six chapters cover The Charcoal Burning Life, Hut Building, The Charcoal Kiln, The Yield and its Value, New Times New Methods, and Uses and By-products. Two appendices cover Charcoal as a Filter and Why does it work? and there are notes and a short bibliography. Examples mostly come from the UK but Germany, Morocco and the Alps also feature. One wonders if Russell Hoban ever read this book while writing his brilliant novel Riddley Walker: one of the subjects covered by Armstrong is the making of a special charcoal for use as an ingredient in gunpowder. Two illustrations show equipment at an 18th century gunpowder factory in Kent. The book itself is still tightly bound and there's no markings to the text. There's some spotting around the edges of the pages and the covers show various signs of wear, and there's some creasing and mild dog-earing towards the bottom front corner. Photos to be supplied. Seller Inventory # 000929
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