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The rarest blue : the remarkable story of an ancient color lost to history and rediscovered / Baruch Sterman with Judy Taubes Sterman

Author
Sterman, Baruch
Published
Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
xiii, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Additional Creators
Sterman, Judy Taubes

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Contents
Prologue: The setting sun -- That dye of dyes -- Ancient times -- Purple people -- Exploring Dora -- Only God can tell -- The missing shade of blue -- Mood indigo -- The quest for the Holy Snail -- True blue -- The selfish shellfish -- Dyed in the wool -- Seeing blue -- Feeling blue -- Tangled up in blue -- Epilogue: Something old, something new.
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ISBN
9780762782222
0762782226
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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