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product_id: 66459380
title: "Indigo"
brand: "bloomsbury publishing plc"
price: "NZ$41"
currency: NZD
in_stock: true
category: "Book"
url: https://www.desertcart.nz/products/66459380-indigo
store_origin: NZ
region: New Zealand
---

# Indigo

**Brand:** bloomsbury publishing plc
**Price:** NZ$41
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Indigo by bloomsbury publishing plc
- **How much does it cost?** NZ$41 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Description

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			        		"[McKinley] introduces the reader to a wide cast of characters who slip in and out of the narrative unobtrusively."--"Kirkus Reviews ""The sections in which [McKinley] focuses on the history of indigo are fascinating, and some of her vivid descriptions shimmer with an almost cinematic quality." --Ingrid Levin, "Library Journal" "Call it blue gold, the devil's dye, or the cloth of history; indigo is the color that launched the ships and caravans of worldwide commerce. It encompasses the slave trade, the factories of European industry, and the woman-dominated markets of Africa. It binds the blue sails of Columbus's ships to denim jeans and the exquisite hand-woven fabrics collectors crave. Catherine McKinley follows her passion, her 'insatiable, desire' for this beauty and history to Africa. There she enters a complex world--ancient, post-modern, stable and volatile. It demands that she be student, adventurer, aesthete and journalist: she meets these demands with restless inte"Gorgeously recounts McKinley's journey to West Africa's teeming markets and churning factories, through funerals and uprisings, to find 'the bluest of the blues'"--"Los Angeles Times""[McKinley's] discoveries resonate, and her unique experiences provide a vivid snapshot of the cultures she encountered in Africa."--"Washington Post""An eye-opening account of the controversial role this gorgeous, coveted pigment has played through the millennia."--"Elle"
						    	
					    	
						
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        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        		
	        		
						
			        		Catherine E. McKinley is the author of "The Book of Sarahs." She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she has taught creative nonfiction, and a former Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, West Africa. She lives in New York City.
						    	
					    	
						
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*Last updated: 2026-05-11*