The Paper Trail : An Unexpected History of the World's Greatest Invention / Alexander Monro.
The Paper Trail : An Unexpected History of the World's Greatest Invention / Alexander Monro.
The Paper Trail : An Unexpected History of the World's Greatest Invention / Alexander Monro.
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Publisher
London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2014.
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G 2015/1652
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Tracing Paper -- Alpha and Omega -- Preparing the Soil -- Genesis -- At the Margins -- Paper Rain -- Papyrocracy -- The Handover -- Bibliophiles -- Building Books -- A New Music -- Bagdatixon and its Ologies -- A Continent Divides -- Translating Europe -- A New Dialogue -- By the Cartload.
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Publisher
London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2014.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2014.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
This is the story of how you came to be holding this book, how you came to be following its printed words across dozens of pages, pages made not from bamboo, silk, parchment or papyrus, but from paper. The emergence of paper in the imperial court of Han China brought about a revolution in the transmission of knowledge and of ideas. For over two mil...
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The Paper Trail : An Unexpected History of the World's Greatest Invention / Alexander Monro.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-348) and index.
Language note
Text in English.
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©2014.
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G 2015/1652
Record Identifier
74VKO52LbOOg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKO52LbOOg
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ISBN
1846147204 (ebook)
9781846141898 (hbk.)
1846141893 (hbk.)
9781846147203 (ebook)
DDC
676.09
MMS ID
991022669409702626
