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Every page of this book is endowed with the confident, unfakable authority of real experience. -- Castle Freeman Cook takes the reader over every step in the wood-harvesting process-tree felling, limbing, bucking, wood handling, splitting, cutting to size, storing, and burning. Cook packs his book with vivid, entertaining anecdotes from a lifetime of experience. -- Bud Leavitt, Bangor (ME) Daily News Praise of Cook's treatment of saws cannot be complete without mention of the superb line drawings of S. Lawrence Whipple. The illustrations are large, clear, and with enough graphic perspective to enable the reader to appreciate what is involved when he drops off the saw `to be sharpened.' Altogether, there are more than fifty of these beautifully drawn, incisive visual aids. -- Roy C. Gunter Jr., Southbridge (MA) News A remarkable piece of work...the illustrations are similar to Eric Sloane's, and like Sloane's they present pictures in clearest detail to back up the author's story. -- Dirk van Loon, Rural Delivery, Liverpool, N.S., Canada

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Dudley Cook bought his first ax at age 14 from a Sears Roebuck catalog. He was educated at Boston University School of Business. During World War II he joined the Marine Corps and fought with distinction in the Pacific Theater on both Guam and Okinawa. He lived in Waterboro, Maine.

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