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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
Paperback.
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 fetching ribbons tying back the hair of every fashionable head in London to the laboratories in which scientists developed modern vaccines against cancer and malaria, Simon Garfield tells the story of how the colour purple became a sensation.
Product Details
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 life and work, Garfield has done a service to history
Chicago Tribune
Simon Garfield's history of the synthetic dye industry mixes chemistry and social history into quite a colourful tale
Observer
A one-man Blue Peter team for intelligent adults, a great British explainer
Observer
Witty, erudite and entertaining
Esquire
Garfield has a talent for being sparked to life by esoteric enthusiasm and charming readers with his delight
The Times
A sort of museum between hard covers . . . as good as pop history gets
Sunday Express
Simon Garfield has made his name as an author who can spin fascinating narratives out of subjects that seem, on the face of it, narrow to the point of being dull
Financial Times
Daily Telegraph
Intriguing and elegant
Guardian
Thoroughly researched and beautifully written
New Scientist
By bringing Perkin into the open and documenting his life and work, Garfield has done a service to history
Chicago Tribune
Simon Garfield's history of the synthetic dye industry mixes chemistry and social history into quite a colourful tale
Observer
A one-man Blue Peter team for intelligent adults, a great British explainer
Observer
Witty, erudite and entertaining
Esquire
Garfield has a talent for being sparked to life by esoteric enthusiasm and charming readers with his delight
The Times
A sort of museum between hard covers . . . as good as pop history gets
Sunday Express
Simon Garfield has made his name as an author who can spin fascinating narratives out of subjects that seem, on the face of it, narrow to the point of being dull
Financial Times