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The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Written by:
Keith Houston
Narrated by:
Dennis Kleinman
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Release Date
April 2019
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9 hours 59 minutes
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We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages-of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today. The Book gives us the momentous and surprising history behind humanity's most important-and universal-information technology.
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