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Copyright © 2015 by Edmund de Waal
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Originally published in 2015 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2015
Cover design by Gabriele Wilson;
Cover images: left to right: © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY; William Cookworthy, c.1740 © Wellcome Library London; Blue Pottery © The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY; © British Library Board / Robana / Art Resource, NY; ceramics still life courtesy of © Edmund de Waal; Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY; Meissen porcelain cup, c.1715 © Edmund de Waal / Ian Skelton
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
De Waal, Edmund, author.
The white road: journey into an obsession / Edmund de Waal. — First American edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-374-28926-3 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-70909-9 (e-book) 1. Porcelain—History. 2. De Waal, Edmund—Travel. I. Title.
NK4370.D45 2015
738.209—dc23
2015022207
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