The white road : journey into an obsession /
"An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2015.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Online Access: | Cover image |
| Summary: | "An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"-- A potter who has been working with porcelain for more than forty years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected and coveted-- and that would help him understand the clay's mysterious allure. His search eventually takes him around the globe and reveals more than a history of cups and figurines; rather, he is forced to confront some of the darkest moments of twentieth-century history. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in 2015 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain"--Title-page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 393). |
| ISBN: | 9780374289263 0374289263 |