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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Author’s Note
Prologue
Part I: Guardian of Immortality
One: The Inspector Puts Pen to Paper and Makes History
Two: Prisse, like Moses, Carries Home Stone Tablets and Paper Scrolls
Three: The Undertaker’s Special and the World’s First Bestseller
Four: The Book of the Dead, Guardian of Immortality
Five: Papyrus Paper, Your Ticket to Paradise
Six: The Sands of the Nile Give Up their Treasures
Seven: The Affair of the Oranges
Eight: The Floodgates Open
Part II: Egypt, Papermaker to the World
Nine: The Birth of Memphis and Paper
Ten: A Gift from the Gods
Eleven: The Monopoly
Twelve: Growing and Managing Papyrus for Paper
Thirteen: The Emperor and the Lewd Papermaker
Fourteen: Taking on the World—and Leaving a Legacy
Part III: The Enemy of Oblivion
Fifteen: Early Libraries, Paper, and the Writing Business
Sixteen: A Library to End All Libraries and the Sweet Smell of History
Seventeen: The Romans and the Book Trade
Eighteen: Roman Libraries
Nineteen: Those Precious, Tender-hearted Scrolls
Twenty: Saving the Day
Twenty-One: Media One Makes Its Mark in the World
Twenty-Two: The Last Bastion, the Church of Rome
Twenty-Three: Constantinople and the Long Goodbye
Twenty-Four: End of the Road and the Battle of the Talas River
Twenty-Five: The Mystery of the Disappearing Plant
Twenty-Six: The Pharaoh’s Own Conquers the Vatican
Twenty-Seven: The Road Back
Illustrations
Epilogue: The Road Ahead
Acknowledgments
Supplementary Illustration Credits
Appendix
References
Endnotes
Index
Copyright
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