Mauve: How One Man Invented A Colour That Changed The World
Author: Simon Garfield
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: $29.99 NZD
: 9780571209170
: Faber and Faber
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: 01 September 2001
: 198mm X 126mm
: United Kingdom
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: Simon Garfield
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: 8pp colour illustrations
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Description
An artificial dye, mauve, was discovered by a 19th-century chemist called William Perkin while searching for a synthetic alternative to natural quinine. This book examines how the different worlds of fashion, industry, business, chemistry and medicine were transformed by a single colour.
