The Secret Lives of Colour Longitude & John Harrison and Gilbert Blane

and Gilbert Blane

By comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives

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The Secret Lives of Colour Longitude & John Harrison and Gilbert BlaneThe history of colour tells the vivid story of civilisation. From scarlet women to imperial purple, leaf green to the white paint that protected against the atom bomb, Picasso's blue period to the pink Barbie claimed for feminism, The Secret Lives of Colour offers a bright thread throughout human history. Kassia St Clair's lifelong fascination with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or Dorothy's ruby