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The white road journey into an obsession

"An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"--Provided by publisher.

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Main Author:	De Waal, Edmund (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Porcelain > History. De Waal, Edmund > Travel.
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Summary:	"An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"--Provided by publisher.
Item Description:	"Originally published in 2015 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain"--Title-page verso.
Physical Description:	401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (page 393).
ISBN:	9780374289263 (hardback) 0374289263 (hardback)
Author Notes:	Edmund de Waal is one of the world's leading ceramic artists, and his porcelain is held in many major museum collections. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes has been published in thirty languages and won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. It was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize, the PEN/Ackerley Prize and the Southbank Sky Arts Award for Literature, and longlisted for the Orwell Prize and BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. He lives in London with his family.