Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War by Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw

Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War by Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn ShawNot everything about wool is warm and fuzzy. Wool, for millennia the cold climate textile fiber, has a long relationship to war, both in terms of supporting it and causing it. Wool's strategic value in wartime, a position it gained over centuries, and contrived shortages of same in the 20th century, have helped drive consumers' transition to the synthetic fibers that have enabled fast fashion, and as both fiber and cloth are global contemporary

But when she ignores a sign at the museum and is followed home by a friendly fossil

from Antarctica to the

insight and humour' MEREDITH JAFFE

right in front of them

for The Mortal Bone and Tiger Eye

Tanning sheep

everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they'll live

Is this the work of a disgruntled complainant

What do you do when the one person you should forget is the one you just can't let go

and compulsively probing the body's animal endurance and appetites

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