by Erik Orsenna · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253174080
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«Sur la route du papier» is the essay by Erik Orsenna, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (327 pages, in French).
Orsenna turns paper into the thread of a journey that starts in China and ends in Canada, with stops in Finland, Russia, India, Japan, Indonesia, Uzbekistan and Brazil. Between ancient workshops and cutting-edge technologies, he covers more than two thousand years of paper history and reflects on its place in the economy and ecology.
Third volume of the series Petit précis de mondialisation. Revised and updated edition by the author.
For readers interested in economics, ecology and the history of globalization.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
