Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancient world

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Vallejo Moreu, Irene
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"Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and Pharaohs were so determined to possess them that they dispatched emissaries to the edges of earth to bring them back...[The book] is the story of the book's journey from oral tradition to scrolls to codices, and how that transition laid the very foundation of Western culture"--
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