Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color by Kupferschmidt, Kai
Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color by Kupferschmidt, Kai

Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color

A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world--and to understand our collective obsession with this...
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Author: Kai Kupferschmidt
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Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color by Kupferschmidt, Kai

Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color

$289.52
Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color by Kupferschmidt, Kai

Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color

$289.52
Author: Kai Kupferschmidt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world--and to understand our collective obsession with this captivating color

Search human history and you'll quickly conclude that we've been enamored of blue at least since the pharaohs. So, it's startling to turn to the realms of nature and discover that "true" blue is truly rare. From the rain forest's morpho butterfly to the blue jay flitting past your window, few living things are blue--and most that appear so are performing sleight of hand with physics or chemistry. Cornflowers use the pigment found in red roses to achieve their blue hue. Even the blue sky above us is a trick of the light.

Science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt has been fascinated by blue since childhood. In Blue, his quest to understand the science and nature of his favorite color takes him from a biotech laboratory in Japan and a volcanic lake in Oregon to Brandenburg, Germany--home of the last surviving blue-feathered Spix's macaws. Whether it's deep underground where blue crystals grow or miles overhead where astronauts gaze down at our "blue marble" planet, wherever we do find Earth's rarest color, it always has a story to tell.


Author: Kai Kupferschmidt
Publisher: Experiment
Published: 07/20/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781615197521


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/2021 pg. 8
Library Journal 06/01/2021 pg. 137
Shelf Awareness 07/20/2021

About the Author
Kupferschmidt, Kai: - Kai Kupferschmidt is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine, where he writes about infectious diseases as well as drug development, biotechnology, evolution, and science policy, and where his intrepid coverage of the coronavirus pandemic has gained international attention. He also writes for the German newspapers Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and Die Zeit. When not doing these things, he is usually thinking about the color blue. He holds a degree in molecular biomedicine from the University of Bonn and lives in Berlin.
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