The author takes readers on a fascinating tour of the pencil. Here is the indispensable object, from its origins in ancient Greece and Rome to it relation in engineering and technology. 46 photographs.
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The author takes readers on a fascinating tour of the pencil. Here is the indispensable object, from its origins in ancient Greece and Rome to it relation in engineering and technology. 46 photographs.
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Add this copy of The Pencil: a History of Design and Circumstance to cart. $15.50, very good condition, Sold by Brit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milton Keynes, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1990 by Alfred a Knopf Inc.
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If you have a smidgen of curiosity -- if you ask, 'Why would anyone write about such a boring subject?', or 'Why pick that title?' -- pick up this book. As long as you have any interest in history, technology, people, blind spots, or just excellent -- no, make that superb -- writing, you will enjoy this book. You may even, as I did, put Henry Petroski on your list of favorite authors (between Donald Norman and Geoffrey Parker, perhaps). Lenin, Thoreau, and others appear in the pages, almost the way Hamlet does in _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead_; yet the motivating force behind the story remains exactly what the title promises, in understated, wry humor that the author shares with the reader. Even if you end up only tolerating the topic, the writing cannot be bettered; crates of editorial blue pencils could not improve upon Petroski's substance, style, and wit.
