Norwegian Wood,a lavishly illustrated how-to guide for chopping, stacking and burning, or sets book charts on fire and cuts Jamie Oliver down to sizeA practical guide to chopping,stacking and burning wood the Norwegian way, detailing everything from the drying time of a birch tree felled in winter to the right sharpening of a chainsaw, or has caught the imagination of British readers and is setting bestseller lists on fire.
Lars Mytting’s Norwegian Wood combines both eminently practical information about tree types and wood-stacking methods (the Norwegian Sun-Wall Woodpile,for example, is “a genuine classic – where regulations permit it) with a history of the practice, and personal stories from the Norwegians who spend months preparing for their frigid winters.
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Source: theguardian.com