{"product_id":"book-gomg","title":"Color","description":"In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette,  Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through  the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history  of culture itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How did the most precious color blue travel all the way from  remote lapis mines in Afghanistan to Michelangelo’s brush? What is the connection  between brown paint and ancient Egyptian mummies? Why did Robin Hood wear Lincoln  green? In \u003ci\u003eColor\u003c\/i\u003e, Finlay explores the physical materials that color our world, such  as precious minerals and insect blood, as well as the social and political meanings  that color has carried through time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Roman emperors used to wear togas dyed with  a purple color that was made from an odorous Lebanese shellfish–which probably meant  their scent preceded them. In the eighteenth century, black dye was called logwood  and grew along the Spanish Main. Some of the first indigo plantations were started  in America, amazingly enough, by a seventeen-year-old girl named Eliza. And the popular  van Gogh painting \u003ci\u003eWhite Roses\u003c\/i\u003e at Washington’s National Gallery had to be renamed  after a researcher discovered that the flowers were originally done in a pink paint  that had faded nearly a century ago. \u003ci\u003eColor\u003c\/i\u003e is full of extraordinary people, events,  and anecdotes–painted all the more dazzling by Finlay’s engaging style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Embark upon  a thrilling adventure with this intrepid journalist as she travels on a donkey along  ancient silk trade routes; with the Phoenicians sailing the Mediterranean in search  of a special purple shell that garners wealth, sustenance, and prestige; with modern  Chilean farmers breeding and bleeding insects for their viscous red blood. The colors  that craft our world have never looked so bright.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49323927699760,"sku":"BDgomg","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/gomg-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776556334","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gomg","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}