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Alexander Monro The Paper Trail

An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention

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Penguin Books Ltd

UK

2015

Paperback

384

Standard

277710

978-0-14-103942-8

0-14-103942-6

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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.

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