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From The New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salta definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped todays world.

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For the past two millennia, the ability to produce paper in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It has created civilisations, fostering the fomenting of revolutions and the stabilising of regimes. Now, on the cusp of going paperless, Mark Kurlansky challenges common assumptions about technologys influence, affirming that paper is here to stay.

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Mark Kurlansky is the author of twenty-eight books including Cod, Salt and Oysters. He is a former foreign correspondent for The International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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