John Gaudet

About The Author

 

A Fulbright Scholar to both India and Malaya, John Gaudet was a writer and practicing ecologist. His early research on papyrus, funded in part by the National Geographic Society, took him to Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, and Ethiopia. A trained ecologist with a PhD from University of California at Berkeley, he authored Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World, and The Pharaoh’s Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization. His writing also appeared in Science, Nature, Ecology, the Washington Post, Salon and the Huffington Post.

Books by John Gaudet

The Pharaoh's Treasure
By John Gaudet
For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets. But it was with the advent of papyrus paper when the ability to record and transmit informat...
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Papyrus
By John Gaudet
From ancient Pharaohs to 21st Century water wars, papyrus is a unique plant that is now the fastest growing plant species on earth. It produces its own “soil”—a peaty, matrix that floats on water—and inspired the fluted columns of the ancient Greeks. In ancient Egypt, the papyrus bounty from the ...
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