Indigo : In Search of the Color That Seduced the World

from ParadigmTree

Like other reviewers, I was also disappointed by the disparity between the marketing for this book and the actual content. It is not that Indigo is a bad book, but I was expecting something different than what I got. This is not a detailed natural or cultural history of Indigo. Rather it is a mem...

from lorax

As many other reviewers have noted, it's extremely important to pay attention to the subtitle, especially the In search of part. This is not, in fact, a history of indigo (and, though the publicity material claimed otherwise, the book itself does not); you will not find a discussion of the botany...

from fyrefly98

Summary: Indigo - both the shrub Indigofera and the brilliant blue-dyed cloth it produces - have been extremely valued throughout history. For all that today blue cloth is typically worn as everyday denim, in other cultures, blue cloth is highly prized and is frequently heavily symbolic. In weste...

from snash

This focus of this book was not indigo but rather the search for it; more of a memoir, travel log. As such it did give a feel for modern life in West Africa; the values, sense of spirituality, difficulty of travel, instability. Her attempts at presenting self felt distant and ethereal. It's a qui...

from KarenIrelandPhillips

I had high expectations of this memoir, but found it merely a self-indulgent travelogue. The writing was serviceable, but the author couldn't seem to decide whether this was a story about her personal journey as a woman, as an African-American, or the story of the people she meets when she travel...