WRITTEN BY
Alessandro Giraudo
ILLUSTRATED BY
Irene Rinaldi
22,5 x 31,5 cm
80 pp.
HARDCOVER
Behind raw materials there are incredible stories that we need to know if we want to understand
today’s world. Did you know that coffee was originally eaten? And that iron fell from the sky?
Do you have any idea how much and what kind of energy you can find in nature? This book is
the start of a journey to discover the origins and uses of all those raw materials we find in our
consumer goods. Where do they come from, what journeys do they make to reach us, what
different uses have been made of them over the centuries? The raw materials’ history has shaped
the history of mankind, so understanding where they come from and what they really are will give
us a clearer idea of the world we inhabit. A great illustrated book to take a curious look at the
evolution of raw materials and the importance that they have always had in our lives, which we
especially need to be aware of today.
