PORCELAIN: A HISTORY FROM THE HEART OF EUROPE AUDUBON first-time green thumbs

first-time green thumbs

nineteenth-century Washington

pure antidote to our age of distraction and excess

each tin net wt

and a mountain trek are always just an hour or two away

PORCELAIN: A HISTORY FROM THE HEART OF EUROPE AUDUBON first-time green thumbs"This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes. Porcelain was invented in medieval Chinabut its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxonys revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelains ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their