Colour by Victoria Finlay

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/82785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Colour Author: Victoria Finlay Narrator: Victoria Finlay Format: mp3 Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins Release date: 11-03-22 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: History & Criticism Publisher's Summary: Colour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book, part travelogue part narrative history, remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poison pigment, blue as expensive as gold and yellow made from the urine of cows force-fed with mangoes. It looks at how green was carried by yaks along the silk road, and how an entire nation was founded on the colour purple.