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Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world
Simon Garfield
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Description for Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world
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1856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has discovered mauve, the world's first synthetic dye, bridging a gap between pure chemistry and industry which will change the world forever. From the...
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786892782
SKU
9781786892782
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Britain, The End of Innocence, won the Somerset Maugham Award. simongarfield.com
Reviews for Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world
A book about science which also happens to be a miniature work of art
Daily Telegraph
Intriguing and elegant
Guardian
Thoroughly researched and beautifully written
New Scientist
By bringing Perkin into the open and documenting his...
Read moreDaily Telegraph
Intriguing and elegant
Guardian
Thoroughly researched and beautifully written
New Scientist
By bringing Perkin into the open and documenting his...