{"product_id":"norwegian-wood-lars-mytting","title":"Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book about firewood sold more than 200,000 copies in Norway and Sweden and sat on their bestseller lists for over a year. That is the fact people quote, and it is a fair warning about what is inside: this is not a pamphlet on splitting logs, it is an attempt to explain why a grown man will spend a Saturday building a woodpile and then stand back and look at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEight chapters take it in order. The Cold. The Forest. The Tools. The Chopping Block. The Woodpile. The Seasoning. The Stove. The Fire. Mytting collected the material by going to people who are serious about wood, combustion researchers and silviculturists as well as enthusiasts, and then trying most of it himself. He dried finely chopped oak in his kitchen oven. He failed to build a beehive woodpile. He misjudged where a felled pine was going.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFifty five color photographs carry the second half of the argument. The contents page faces a wall of split log ends. The Forest opens on a stand of tall conifers against a deep green chapter board. A trailer stands on a forest road loaded with fresh cut trunks. A man in a knitted cap stands behind the open square woodpile he has built on the snow. A log cabin sits under a deep cap of snow below a hillside of snow laden conifers. A long open woodshed, its plank roof weighted down with old tires, is packed to the eaves with split wood and lit from behind by low sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the US edition, fully updated from the Norwegian original, and it carries an appendix of US based resources and contacts, so the buying advice is usable here rather than admirable from a distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 192 pages, 6 by 9 in. Abrams Image, 6 October 2015. ISBN-13 9781419717987.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/buchanan-smiths-axe-handbook\" class=\"inline-flex min-h-11 items-center gap-1.5 rounded-full border border-border px-4 py-2 text-sm text-muted-foreground transition-colors hover:border-primary hover:text-foreground\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"\u003ePair it with Buchanan-Smith's Axe Handbook\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/fika-the-art-of-the-swedish-coffee-break\" class=\"inline-flex min-h-11 items-center gap-1.5 rounded-full border border-border px-4 py-2 text-sm text-muted-foreground transition-colors hover:border-primary hover:text-foreground\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"\u003eTake the Swedish coffee break with Fika\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/products\/scandinavian-from-scratch\" class=\"inline-flex min-h-11 items-center gap-1.5 rounded-full border border-border px-4 py-2 text-sm text-muted-foreground transition-colors hover:border-primary hover:text-foreground\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"\u003eBake your way through Scandinavia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abrams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48267695456486,"sku":"9781419717987","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/3862\/3462\/files\/9781419717987-00-fe76ac0f07.jpg?v=1788341133","url":"https:\/\/shop.stellarluxe.com\/products\/norwegian-wood-lars-mytting","provider":"Stellar Luxe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}