The Book-Makers - Adam Smyth Books on hunting mushrooms

on hunting mushrooms

‘He makes us see a subject we thought we knew so well from a completely different angle

and you can have the energy and motivation to create the life you want

and about to become a father for the first time

The Book-Makers - Adam Smyth Books on hunting mushroomsThis is an extraordinary story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error. Of printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper makers and library founders. Some we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin, and watch Thomas Cobden Sanderson conjure books that flicker between the 20th and 15th centuries. Others weve forgotten. We don't recall Sarah Eaves, wife of John Baskerville, and