# The Paper Trail

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- Book: [The Paper Trail](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-monro/the-paper-trail) ([The Paper Trail.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-monro/the-paper-trail.md))
- Authors: [Alexander Monro](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-monro)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0745-669-4
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2017-02-21
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Paper Trail is the two-millennia-long history of how a simple Chinese invention changed the course of human events. Tracing the emergence of paper from the imperial court of Han China to its subsequent...