Smith & Hawken: The Tool Book: A Compendium of Over 500 Tools

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Smith & Hawken: The Tool Book: A Compendium of Over 500 Tools for the Well-Tended Garden
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At first glance The Tool Book might look like a dry catalogue of various garden tools, but it's actually a fresh and inspiring history lesson. Author William Bryant Logan carefully intersperses his detailed descriptions of hoes, mattocks, tining forks, or pruning saws with short meditations on the tool's evolution. In a chapter entitled "Digging," he writes, "The growth of civilization paralleled the evolution of the spade and the shovel." Behind the book, there's a vision of humanity constantly forging new technology to more carefully and effortlessly shape the landscape.
Amateur gardeners will learn the vast differences between cheap and expensive tools. Clear explanations of the differences between "stamping" and "forging" metal tools, and how to tell the difference, will change your perspective the next time you go to make a purchase. You will also learn why some handles are short and others are long, and why corn husks with their pointed tips led to the invention of the trowel. To Logan's credit, he understands that gardeners arbitrarily love certain tools and hate others, and thus his descriptions are objective--his book more an orientation than a lesson in the "right" way to garden. Packed with photos, The Tool Book is an essential text for anyone facing the daunting task of creating and maintaining a garden. --Emily White
Country USA
Brand Workman
Manufacturer Workman Publishing Company
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
UPCs 019628121363
EANs 9780761121367
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Workman
Manufacturer	Workman Publishing Company
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
UPCs	019628121363
EANs	9780761121367
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Smith & Hawken: The Tool Book: A Compendium of Over 500 Tools for the Well-Tended Garden

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