Mauve (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Canons
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2018-05-03
Förlag
Canongate Books
Dimensioner
203 x 127 x 25 mm
Vikt
204 g
ISBN
9781786892782

Mauve

How one man invented a colour that changed the world

Häftad,  Engelska, 2018-05-03
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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 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.

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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