![]() It looks at how green was carried by yaks along the silk road, and how an entire nation was founded on the colour purple. It remembers a time when red paint really was 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. Part travelogue, part narrative history, this study unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. 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. It remembers a time when red paint really was the colour of blood, when orange was the poison pigment, blue as ex. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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