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The White Road: A Pilgrimage Of Sorts
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 Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain Along the way he meets the witnesses to its creation; those who were inspired made rich or heartsick by it and the many whose livelihoods minds and bodies were broken by this obsessionIt spans a thousand years and
reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times In these intimate and compelling encounters with the people and landscapes who made porcelain Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material the white gold& he has worked with for decades Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4
reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times In these intimate and compelling encounters with the people and landscapes who made porcelain Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material the white gold& he has worked with for decades Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4
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