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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.
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.
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By bringing Perkin into the open and documenting his life and work, Garfield has done a service to history (Chicago Tribune)
Garfield has a talent for being sparked to life by esoteric enthusiasm and charming readers with his delight (The Times)
Intriguing and elegant (Guardian)
[T]he delight of this book is seeing parallels to present-day trends (New York Times Book Review)
Garfield leaps gracefully back and forth in time, as comfortable in the Victorian past as he is in the brave new world of petrochemicals and biochemistry (KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review)
Garfield's engaging story of William Perkin's accidental discovery is an informative mix of science, history, and biography (Boston Herald)
[A]n inviting cocktail of Perkin biography, account of the dye industry and where it led, and social and cultural history up to the present (American Scientist)
Garfield has a talent for being sparked to life by esoteric enthusiasm and charming readers with his delight (The Times)
Intriguing and elegant (Guardian)
[T]he delight of this book is seeing parallels to present-day trends (New York Times Book Review)
Garfield leaps gracefully back and forth in time, as comfortable in the Victorian past as he is in the brave new world of petrochemicals and biochemistry (KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review)
Garfield's engaging story of William Perkin's accidental discovery is an informative mix of science, history, and biography (Boston Herald)
[A]n inviting cocktail of Perkin biography, account of the dye industry and where it led, and social and cultural history up to the present (American Scientist)
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