Children's Nonfiction Exploration & Discovery
The Biography of Rubber
- Publisher
- Crabtree Publishing Company
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2005
- Category
- Exploration & Discovery, How Things Work-Are Made, General
- Recommended Age
- 10
- Recommended Grade
- 5
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780778725220
- Publish Date
- Oct 2005
- List Price
- $10.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780778724865
- Publish Date
- Oct 2005
- List Price
- $25.95
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Description
This fascinating new book explores how one of the world’s most important products starts out as sap from a tropical tree and ends up as tires on your family car. Find out how this sap was used in ancient times, how early rubber barons prospered in South America, how they treated their laborers, and the environmental dangers of producing both natural and synthetic rubber.
About the author
Carrie Gleason est auteure et éditrice. Elle a écrit quatre des livres de la collection Le Canada vu de près soient Ressources naturelles, Colombie-Britannique, Nouvelle-Écosse et Nunavut. Carrie habite Toronto, en Ontario.
Carrie Gleason is a writer and editor living in Toronto. She has written three previous books in the Canada Close Up (Le Canada vu de près) series: British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Nunavut (Colombie-Britannique, Nouvelle-Écosse et Nunavut).
