Paper: Paging Through History
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393239616 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kurlansky has a deep instinct for telling detail, which he combines with a disarmingly fun narrative style. Kurlansky makes a compelling case that paper has always been a revolutionary force – a foundation for expression of every sort and that it is certainly not dead yet.” (Elizabeth Taylor - The National Book Review)“Kurlanksy tells the history of paper vividly in this compact and well-illustrated book….He has a sharp eye for curious details…d offers a versatile introduction to this long and complicated history.” (Anthony Grafton - New York Times Book Review)“A beautiful thing to hold and feel, and it presents a fine argument for the retention of paper as an aesthetically lusty object.” (Simon Garfield - The Obser
Thousands of years ago, Socrates and Plato warned that written language would be the end of “true knowledge,” replacing the need to exercise memory and think through complex questions. Paper will be the commodity history that guides us forward in the twenty-first century and illuminates our times. Or take the fact that one of history’s most revered artists, Leonardo da Vinci, left behind only 15 paintings but 4,000 works on paper. By tracing paper’s evolution from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the contributions made in Asia and the Mi
. He lives in New York City. Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times best-selling author of twenty-eight books and a former foreign correspondent for The International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Wild factual inaccuracies" according to Jill Zerkle. While I have loved other Mark Kurlansky books, this one comes closer to fields I have studied and I was horrified to discover that neither he nor his editors bother to fact check before publishing. I further discovered there is no way to contact the author directly to let him know of. Jon Hunt said Comprehensive and enlightening. As Mark Kurlansky did with previous books like "Cod" and Salt", he has done so again in "Paper".taking one subject and going into it in great detail. Not surprisingly, the author has come up with another winner this time, as paper is one of those subjects that is rife with so many di. Charles said Worth Reading, Even With (Immaterial) Inaccuracies. “Paper” is a book of interesting anecdotes, loosely linked by its theme. At the end of the book, the reader may say “what’s the point?” But, really, there is no point. To seek one is a mistake. Rather, all of Kurlansky’s books, which include &ldquo