The Wood Fire Handbook: The complete guide to a perfect fire

Vincent Thurkettle

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'Sound, well-seasoned advice [on] how to bring wood fires into our lives.' - BBC Countryfile

The Wood Fire Handbook shows you that the soothing effect of dancing flames and glowing embers is a simple pleasure to have in our lives. Understanding everything that underpins the perfect wood fire makes it even more enjoyable. Vincent Thurkettle's handbook is the essential companion and manual.

The expert insight and knowledge in this book allow everyone to rediscover the skills of previous generations and savour the delight of a perfect wood fire in all its incarnations.

Contents include...

Understand which trees make the best firewood

Learn how to split, season, and store wood

Lay the perfect fire

Make an ingenious campfire

Choose wood for its scent

...and much more!

This revised edition features updated information on wood-burning stoves, 'clean' wood and other environmental considerations.

Vincent Thurkettle

Vincent Thurkettle is a woodsman. After spending his childhood roaming the Somerset countryside, he left school at 16 to work on an the Huntley Estate in Gloucestershire. He subsequently trained as a Chartered Forester, and worked for the Forestry Commission, retiring in 2005.

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