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Mulberry

by Peter Coles Reaktion Books, £16

It is difficult to underestimate the influence of the mulberry tree on human history and how we arrived at where we are today. Mulberry bark cloth appears across the East and Southeast Asia; mulberry paper was developed by the Chinese; as the

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