The paper trail : an unexpected history of a revolutionary invention / Alexander Monro.

By: Monro, AlexanderPublication details: New York : Knopf, 2016Description: 368 p. ; illustrations, mapsISBN: 9780307271662; 0307271668; 0141039426; 1846141893Subject(s): Technology and engineering -- Inventions | Papermaking -- History | Paper -- History | History -- Civilization | Language arts and disciplines -- Literacy | General & World History | InventionsDDC classification:
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 -- Epilogue : Fading Trails.
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"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Allen Lane, ...in 2014" -- copyright page

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Epilogue : Fading Trails.

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