Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling 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. He lives in New York City.
"The history of paper is a history of cultural transmission, and
Kurlansky tells it vividly in this compact, well-illustrated
book."
*The New York Times*
"Kurlansky’s book is published with a deckle edge finish, a process
that replaces the regular clean-cut trim of a page with a jagged,
pulped roughness... It is a beautiful thing to hold and feel, and
it presents a fine argument for the retention of paper as an
aesthetically lusty object, let alone one that’s thrived through
centuries of change."
*The Observer*
"Kurlansky expertly argues a case for its [paper's] continuing
survival."
*The Scotsman*
"Kurlansky... explains how something so simple came to play such a
vital part in history."
*The Sunday Business Post*
"Paper is not what you would call a learned book, but one learns an
awful lot from it, all packaged in Kurlansky’s whipsmart
prose."
*The Times*
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