The Book of Heat

By Vermont Castings Staff

Book Overview

With specific information that reflects the state of the art and a knowledge of the pitfalls, The Book Of Heat is the one source you need for heating with wood and coal. Seasonal checklists give stove... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082890491X
• ISBN13: 9780828904919
• Release Date: August 1982
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A great, warm, technically inclined hippy book on wood heat

I picked this book up used in Ithaca, NY, in 1992 or so, with the intention of giving it as a gift, but fell in love with it, not just for all the great information on how to run a wood stove efficiently, but for the charming digressions, the stories, the line and ink illustrations, the New Englandy feel of it all, and for the warm brotherly tone of the writing. The tragedy is that in the 10 years between buying it and installing my first wood stove, I lost the book. The redemption is that I've found a used copy here for under $5!Any one of the digressions alone is enough to justify purchase of this book: there are discussion on how to get timber out of the forest, when to buy firewood, what a wood fired zamboni is like, etc. etc. etc.Buy a copy of this book while it's still available, even if you don't have a wood stove. By the time you're done reading it, you'll want one!