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The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts
Edmund De Waal
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Description for The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts
Paperback. Winner of the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, this book is about a journey undertaken by the author that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: AFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 386.
** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian ... Read more
** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that mixed with the right materials, it might survive the fire of the kiln, and fuse into porcelain - translucent, luminous, white. Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099575986
SKU
9780099575986
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Edmund De Waal
Edmund de Waal is an artist whose porcelain is exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with the Amber Eyes, won the RSL Ondaatje prize and the Costa Biography Award and in 2015 he was awarded the Windham-Campbell prize for non-fiction by Yale University. He lives in London with his family. ... Read more
Reviews for The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts
Sweeping in scope ... intimate in detail ... The White Road is a mesmirising and finely wrought work. It is also a cautionary tale about the price of beauty pursued at any cost.
Ekow Eshun
Independent on Sunday
I loved almost every word of de Waal's book. ... De Waal is intimate with the very ... Read more
Ekow Eshun
Independent on Sunday
I loved almost every word of de Waal's book. ... De Waal is intimate with the very ... Read more