Paper Trail : An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention

Name: Paper Trail
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780141039428
Price: 2900 KES
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ISBN: 9780141039428

by Alexander Monro

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0141039426

ISBN-13 9780141039428

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint Penguin Books Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 7th, 2015

Print length 384 Pages

Weight 284 grams

Dimensions 19.50 x 12.80 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: General & world history History: specific events & topics Social & cultural history Material culture Material culture General and world history History: specific events and topics Social and cultural history

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Presents a story of how a Chinese product has for two millennia allowed knowledge, ideas and religions to spread across the world. In this book the author traces the invention's voyage, beginning with the Buddhist translators responsible for its spread across China and Japan. It became indispensable to the scholars, when the paper reached Europe.

The Paper Trail tells the story of how a simple Chinese product has for two millennia allowed knowledge, ideas and religions to spread at an unprecedented rate around the world. Alexander Monro traces this groundbreaking invention''s voyage, beginning with the Buddhist translators responsible for its spread across China and Japan, and follows it westward along the Silk Road, where it eventually became the surface of the Quran. Once paper reached Europe, it became indispensable to the scholars who manufactured the Renaissance and Reformation from their desks. As Monro uncovers, paper created a world in which free thinking could flourish, and brought disciplines from science to music into a new age.

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