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Deeper Than Indigo: Tracing Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer
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Artikel-Nr:
9781909339538
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.06.2015
Seiten:
352
Autor:
Jenny Balfour Paul
Gewicht:
807 g
Format:
236x164x32 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jenny Balfour Paul A writer, artist, international lecturer and intrepid traveller, she is author of two books on Indigo, and numerous other writings.She was consultant curator for the Whitworth Art gallery's 2007 touring exhibition 'Indigo, a Blue to Dye For' and consultant for two documentary films.Jenny is an Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter University; a Fellow of London's Royal Geographical Society and Royal Asiatic Society and New York's Explorers Club; and President of the UK's Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers.She is involved in research into dyes recovered from shipwrecks, is a partner in 'Silk Road Connect', an educational initiative launched by cellist Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project in New York in 2009, and promotes revivals of natural dyes throughout the world.
This intriguing odyssey, set on the edges of time, encompasses boigraphy, memoir, detective story, travelogue and history to tell a remarkable tale of East-West connections ad a mysterious love.