The Pharaoh's Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization - Tapa blanda

Gaudet, John

 
9781643133423: The Pharaoh's Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization
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ISBN 10: 164313342X ISBN 13: 9781643133423
Editorial: Pegasus Books, 2020

Sinopsis

For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets. But it was with the advent of papyrus paper when the ability to record and transmit information exploded, allowing for an exchanging of ideas from the banks of the Nile throughout the Mediterranean and the civilized world for the first time in human history. The Pharaoh s TreasureThe story of this material that was prized by both scholars and kings reveals how papyrus paper is more than a relic of our ancient past, but a key to understanding how ideas and information shaped humanity in the ancient and early modern world.

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Acerca del autor

A Fulbright Scholar to both India and Malaya, John Gaudet is a writer and practicing ecologist. His early research on papyrus, funded in part by the National Geographic Society, took him to Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, and Ethiopia. A trained ecologist with a PhD from University of California at Berkeley, he is the author of Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World, and his writing has appeared in Science, Nature, Ecology, the Washington Post, Salon and the Huffington Post. He lives in McLean, Virgina.

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Editorial
Pegasus Books
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
164313342X
ISBN 13 
9781643133423
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
392
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