Silk - A History in Three Metamorphoses

Informationen zum Autor AARATHI PRASAD is a writer, broadcaster, and researcher. She is the author of In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room: Travels Through Indian Medicine (Profile, 2016) which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and won the Popular Medicine Award at the BMA Awards 2017; and Like A Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex (Oneworld, 2012), shortlisted for the Salon Prize and translated into Italian, Bulgarian and Dutch. Born in London to an Indian mother who wore only silk saris and a Caribbean father who loved the natural world, Aarathi was educated in the West Indies and the UK. After completing a PhD in molecular genetics from Imperial College London, she later trained in bioarchaeology. She works as a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Global Health, focussed on sustainability and urban health in Kenya, and as part of an international team excavating and analysing ancient DNA from funerary sites in Spain, Rome, and Pompeii. Klappentext There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia. Vorwort A History in Three Metamorphoses Weaving Together Biography, Global History and Science Writing Zusammenfassung There is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia.

Product details

• Authors: Aarathi Prasad, Prasad Aarathi
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2023
• EAN: 9780008451844
• ISBN: 978-0-00-845184-4
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); World, NATURE / Ecology, popular science, HISTORY / Civilization, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, natural history, CE period up to c 1500, c 1500 onwards to present day, Insects (entomology), Biology, life sciences, Fashion & textiles: design, Fashion & beauty industries, Fashion and textile design, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Fashion and beauty industries, Textile & fibre technology, Textiles and fibres, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Weaving & Spinning