A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire

"You'll finish [Greenfield's] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she...
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A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Greenfield, Amy Butler

A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire

$40.75

A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire

$40.75
Author: Amy Butler Greenfield
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"You'll finish [Greenfield's] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity."--Houston Chronicle

Interweaving mystery, empire, and adventure, Amy Butler Greenfield's masterful popular history offers a window onto a world far different from our own: a world in which the color red was rare and precious--a source of wealth and power for those who could unlock its secrets. And in this world nothing was more prized than cochineal, a red dye that produced the brightest, strongest red the Old World had ever seen.

A Perfect Red recounts the story of this legendary red dye, from its cultivation by the ancient Mexicans and discovery by 16th-century Spanish conquistadors to the European pirates, explorers, alchemists, scientists, and spies who joined in the chase to unlock its secrets, a chase that lasted more than three centuries. It evokes with style and verve this history of a grand obsession, of intrigue, empire, and adventure in pursuit of the most desirable color on earth.



Author: Amy Butler Greenfield
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/25/2006
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780060522766

About the Author
Greenfield, Amy Butler: -

Amy Butler Greenfield's grandfather and great-grandfather were dyers, and she has long been fascinated by the history of color. Born in Philadelphia, she grew up in the Adirondacks and graduated from Williams College. As a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, she studied imperial Spain and Renaissance Europe. She now lives with her husband near Boston.

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