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From the Good Mountain

by James Rumford

What was made of rags and bones, soot and seeds? What took a mountain to make? For the answer, travel back to the fifteenth century—to a time when books were made by hand and a man named Johannes Gutenberg invented a way to print books with movable type. On every page there is something surprising to learn about how the very thing you are holding in your hands came to be.

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