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About this title: Part travelogue, part narrative history, COLOUR unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poison pigment, blue as expensive as gold, and yellow made from the urine of cows force-fed with mangoes. It looks at how green was carried by yaks along the silk road, and how an entire nation was founded on the colour purple. Exciting, richly informative, and always surprising, COLOUR lifts the ...
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Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
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Victoria Finlay
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Publisher: Sceptre
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13: 9780340733295
ISBN: 0340733292
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Colour
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Victoria Finlay
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sceptre
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13: 9780340733295
ISBN: 0340733292
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Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
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Victoria Finlay
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sceptre
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13: 9780340733295
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Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
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Victoria Finlay
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Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION, UK
ISBN-13: 9780340733295
ISBN: 0340733292
Description: New. On a journey that takes her from Afghanistan to the Australian outback, to ancient caves in China and the saffron harvest in Spain, Victoria Finlay gives an account of the history of colour. Part travelogue, part narrative history, this study unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow. ISBN10: 0340733292. read more
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Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
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Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
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Victoria Finlay
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Publisher: Sceptre
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13: 9780340733295
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Colour
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Colour Travels Through the Paintbox
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Binding: Soft Cover
Publisher: Hodder & Staughton, London
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13: 9780340733295
ISBN: 0340733292
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Soft Cover, 494pp A voyage through the paintbox The history and mythology of colors. In very good condition. read more
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Colour
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ISBN-13: 9780340936405
ISBN: 0340936401
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