{"id":39120,"date":"2024-12-22T00:25:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/silk-a-world-history\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T00:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T00:25:13","slug":"silk-a-world-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/silk-a-world-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Silk: A World History"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of 2024<\/p>\n

A Library Journal Selection for Best Nonfiction of 2024<\/p>\n

A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for April<\/p>\n

\u201cAarathi Prasad\u2019s Silk: A World History is a love song to this protean material. . . . Beautiful [and] fascinating.\u201d \u2014Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n

“Aarathi Prasad spins a masterpiece of a story, as luminous, supple, and surprising as the wondrous threads themselves.” \u2014Sy Montgomery, bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus and Of Time and Turtles<\/p>\n

Throughout history, across cultures and countries, silk has reigned as the undeniable queen of fabrics, yet its origins and evolution remain a mystery. In a gorgeous and sweeping narrative, Silk weaves together its intricate story and the indelible mark it has left on humanity.<\/p>\n

Some four thousand years ago, the cultivation of silkworms began, the practice spreading to the far reaches of civilization. With it came a growing obsession with unlocking silk\u2019s secrets to understand how the strongest biological material ever known could be harnessed.<\/p>\n

Explorers and scientists, including groundbreaking women who pushed the boundaries of societal expectations, dedicated\u2014even sacrificed\u2014their lives to investigate the anatomy of silk-producing animals. They endured unbelievable hardships to discover and collect new specimens, leading them to the moths of China, Indonesia, and India; the spiders of Argentina, Paraguay, and Madagascar; and the mollusks of the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

Rich with the complex connections between human and nonhuman worlds, Silk not only peers into the past but also reveals the fiber\u2019s impact today, inspiring new technologies across the fashion, military, and medical fields, and shows its untapped potential to pioneer a more sustainable future.<\/p>\n

The culmination of author and biologist Aarathi Prasad\u2019s own lifelong passion and grounded in years of research and writing, Silk is an intoxicating read that provides an essential illumination of nature\u2019s most glamourous thread.<\/p>\n


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Publisher \u200f : \u200e William Morrow (April 30, 2024)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Hardcover \u200f : \u200e 304 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0063160250
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0063160255
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 1.1 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 6 x 1.08 x 9 inches <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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