Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour that Changed the World - Softcover

Garfield, Simon

 
9780571209170: Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour that Changed the World

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Mauve by Simon Garfield is a wonderful biography of William Perkin, the man who invented a colour which took the fashion houses of Paris and London by storm - and also had fundamental effects on the development of explosives, perfume, photography and modern medicine.

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Simon Garfield was born in 1960. He is the author of Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Industry, The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, The Wrestling, The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1, Mauve, The Last Journey of William Huskisson, The Error World and the Mass Observation trilogy Our Hidden Lives, Private Battles and We Are At War. Mini: the True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car was published in 2009.

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