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Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Praise
PREFACE - The Beginning of the Rainbow
INTRODUCTION - The Paintbox
1 - Ochre
SYDNEY
DARWIN
TRADING OCHRE
OCHRE INCEST TABOOS
THE EDGES OF ARNHEMLAND
ALICE SPRINGS
UTOPIA
WHEN THE COLORS WERE TAKEN AWAY
2 - Black and Brown
THE FIRST PAINTING
THE OTHER EARLIEST PAINTINGS
IMPERMANENCE
CHARCOAL
SEDUCTIVE MASCARA
PENCILS
INK
PERMANENCE
DARK DYES
DEAD BODIES
THE JOURNEY
3 - White
DYING TO BE WHITE
THE STORY OF THE SKELETONS
THE SACRIFICE OF THE FIVE-PIGMENT GIRL
THE ADVENTURES OF LANGDON WARNER
WHITER SHADES OF PALE
WHITE HOUSES
PERFECT WHITES
THE WOMAN IN WHITE: A POSTSCRIPT
4 - Red
THE PLANTATION
THE OLD WORLD BUG
NEW WORLD INSECT
A SPY IN MEXICO
INDIAN RED
THE DRAGON AND THE ELEPHANT
5 - Orange
CREMONA
BASTARD SAFFRON AND THE BLOOD OF DRAGONS
MAD ABOUT MADDER
ITALY
6 - Yellow
INDIAN YELLOW
GAMBOGE AND ORPIMENT
SAFFRON
SAFFRON WALDEN
IN WHICH I FIND JESUS
PERSIAN YELLOW
THE LAUGHING SPICE
PURPLE MANTLES
7 - Green
THE SECRETS OF CELADON
THE POISONER RETURNS
THE LOST GREENS
A ONE-POT DYE
8 - Blue
BEYOND THE SEAS
THE KHYBER
BAMIYAN
A GREMLIN BLUE
SECOND ATTEMPT
THE COLOR OF THE SKY
LOSING A SHOE
CHARTRES BLUE
THE VIRGIN’S ROBE
9 - Indigo
A FIGHTER’S WEED
WOAD AND THE MIDDLE CLASSES
INDIGO IN THE OTHER INDIES
MAYAN BLUES
ISAAC’S INDIGO
A REBEL’S COLOR
THE LAST INDIGO PLANT
10 - Violet
A FUNERAL
THE PURPLE PEOPLE
THE FLUTTERING OF A BUTTERFLY’S WINGS
PASSION AND POWER
TYRE
A DYE FADES
THE PURPLE OF THE MIXTECS
THE SECRET OF TEKHELET
EPILOGUE - The End of the Rainbow
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
CREDITS
Copyright Page
 
 
For my parents, Jeannie and Patrick,
who first showed me the place where light dances
 
 
“LOADED WITH FASCINATING TIDBITS.” —Boston Herald
“A rainbow of stories . . . Even casual natural history fans can enjoy Finlay’s conversational style and her enthusiasm for her little-understood topic.” —Chicago Tribune
“Color is the essence of landscape, of mood, of our whole perception of the physical world. Victoria Finlay has traveled through Iran, Afghanistan, and other places to investigate the origin of all those tantalizingly sensual ochers and reds and blues. What a creative idea for a book!”
—ROBERT D. KAPLAN, author of The Ends of the Earth and Eastward to Tartary
“A model of erudition and charm, the writing elegant and precise.” —SIMON WINCHESTER
“Exhilarating . . . Finlay’s wide-ranging, richly detailed, and bravely researched survey of the colors of ............

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