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.
- ISBN10 0778725227
- ISBN13 9780778725220
- Publish Date 1 January 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 16 April 2014
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Crabtree Publishing Co,Canada
- Format Paperback
- Pages 32
- Language English