The White Road: a pilgrimage of sorts
Chatto & Windus -$40.00
In The White Road, #1 Sunday Times bestselling
author and artist Edmund de Waal travels the globe to tell the story of his
obsession with porcelain, or 'white gold', and the lure it held for the
Europeans who encountered it: from Jesuit missionaries in 17th-century China,
via the palaces of Versailles and Dresden, to the chemist shops of 18th-century
Plymouth, the settlements of the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, and the
darkest moments of 20th-century history. Within all this is an intimate memoir
of the author's life as a potter, and his deepening understanding of the
material he has worked with for over 45 years.
About the author:
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.
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