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“Kurlansky’s telling of this history...is swift, crisp, and deft.” - Reid Mitenbuler, The Atlantic“[An] historical journey well worth the ride. [Kurlansky] has a deep instinct for telling detail, which he combines with a disarmingly fun narrative style.” - Los Angeles Times“An historical journey well worth the ride. [Kurlansky] has a deep instinct for telling detail, which he combines with a disarmingly fun narrative style. Kurlansky makes a compelling case that paper has always been a revolutionary force – a foundation for expression of every sort ― and that it is certainly not dead yet.” - Elizabeth Taylor, The National Book Review“Kurlanksy tells [the history of paper] vividly in this compact and well-illustrated book….He has a sharp eye for curious details….[and] offers a versatile introduction to this long and complicated history.” - Anthony Grafton, New York Times Book Review“A beautiful thing to hold and feel, and it presents a fine argument for the retention of paper as an aesthetically lusty object.” - Simon Garfield, The Observer“One learns an awful lot from [Paper], all packaged in Kurlansky’s whipsmart prose.” - John Sutherland, The Times (London)“Littered with amazing facts.” - Lily Rothman, Time magazine

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About the Author

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times best-selling author of twenty-nine 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.

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Product details

Paperback: 416 pages

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (May 23, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780393353709

ISBN-13: 978-0393353709

ASIN: 0393353702

Product Dimensions:

5.5 x 1.1 x 8.3 inches

Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.0 out of 5 stars

99 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#124,441 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Not well researched or organized. The text goes all over the place, often leaving paper per se very far behind. Largest problem are the glaring errors which can't be ignored. Some make Gutenberg sound like some kind of simpleton. For example, on page 113, Gutenberg did not ink his type with “his own formula of gallnut shaving…soot and water,” as stated by the author. Such ink would simply pool on the metal surface of the typeface then run off, smear and soak into the handmade paper creating a blurry blot. Instead he mixed up his own ink, an ink that was definitely NOT water-based. The ink he made up had to be a special ink similar to modern day printers’ ink which is oil-based. This was an extraordinary move, a brilliant innovation, perhaps as significant as his use of movable type, hand-made linen paper and the press itself. The British Museum page on the Gutenberg Bible says: “The ink used by Gutenberg was also a new development. It was not really ink at all, more like a varnish or oil paint. Unlike writing-ink it is oil-based, not based on water. Water-based ink would simply run off the metal types whereas the thick, viscous oil-based varnish sticks to them.” His ink was also distinctive in that it had a glittering surface indicating that that it contained a high metal content, in particular copper, lead and titanium and also sulphur.Kurlansky’s statement that he used molten lead for his typeface oversimplifies the case. He used a metal alloy consisting mostly of lead and tin, with a small amount of antimony for hardening. Antimony has the rare property of expanding as it cools, giving the casting sharp edges needed to create the crisp print that distinguished his work.On page 10, Kurlansky says a papyrus reed stem used by the Egyptians to make papyrus paper “peels like an onion” – it doesn’t. The core of lightweight white pulp found inside the stem has to be sliced with a sharp knife or razor into thin slices.Further, he states there are “about twenty layers” inside the stem, again completely wrong.He needs to publish some sort of correction page to go with this book, otherwise it misinforms.

While I have loved other Mark Kurlansky books, this one comes closer to fields I have studied and I was horrified to discover that neither he nor his editors bother to fact check before publishing. I further discovered there is no way to contact the author directly to let him know of his errors.He claims that "linguists regard Greek...to be...the grandparent of all modern European languages." (page 64 of 897 ebook version) My degree from UC Berkeley in linguistics disagrees with him. Modern European languages come from a number of different language families, most NOT descended from Greek.He claims that silk contains cellulose. (page 91 of 897 ebook version). This is a gross misstatement. Cellulose is a polysaccharide: silk is a protein. These are distinctly different polymers. The idea that you can make something paper-like out of either does not make them the same thing.At that point, I had to stop reading.

I read 'Salt' and 'Cod' by MK and I enjoyed and recommend them both.But I was put off by 'Paper'.Other reviewers found many discrepancies with what they say are established facts. I wouldn't know about those things, nor would I be able to judge.I didn't enjoy the book; so much of it is just open-ended chattering about what he thinks about 'paper'. MK tells an interesting story of how paper came to be invented, developed and used in different ages across the world. Well and good; those stories are told in detail and quite worth reading.But his chatter is just that. Paper is and should be an engrossing subject, like 'Salt', or 'Cod'. Unfortunately, 'Paper' is not nearly as interesting.

I loved Kurlansky's Salt, but this book is not about the commodity paper. It's about printing and what people were thinking about at various times. It's also pervasively political: Kurlansky admires Muslims and hates Europeans. What that has to do with paper is not obvious.The author thinks that printing was invented to talk about religion and facilitate religious wars. It is a commonplace in communications theory that the opposite is true: whenever communications improve, wars start, because it turns out that what people most want to communicate about is how much they hate each other. So Gutenberg's 1450 printing press started the 200 years of war during the Reformation. It can't be the other way around because if so, printing would have been invented during the birth and spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire, 0 to 350 AD. That Twitter and Facebook were used to start all the many wars of the Arab Spring and the other revolutions such as in Ukraine is well known. But Twitter and Facebook were not invented in order to start revolutions. The Internet improved communications and was used that way, that's all.This hardback book was printed on lovely deckled paper, but the content isn't worth the paper it's printed on. I'm disappointed: I really wanted to read a book about paper, since I used to work for a large scientific printer, but this book is not about paper.

"Salt" is one of my all-time favorites, and I enjoyed Cod and Basques as well. I was overjoyed to see Kurlansky getting back into the history game with "Paper". Let me say that I enjoyed the book. Not as much as the other three, but it was enjoyable to read. There were a few questionable "facts", and I see why some reviewers have jumped on them, but none of these take away from the overall message in my mind. The only addition I'd like to make is that "less is more" would have been helpful in parts. The section of his trip to Japan really managed to weigh down the whole book and came across to me as him trying to justify a free trip to Japan, as was his sudden appearance in Basque country which was also out of place for the subject. All that being said, this book is a fun read. It is a delight to see Kurlansky back into the game, and I assure you I'll still give his next book a look.

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