# The Book of Color

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- Book: [The Book of Color](https://www.bookquiver.com/julia-blackburn/the-book-of-color) ([The Book of Color.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julia-blackburn/the-book-of-color.md))
- Authors: [Julia Blackburn](https://www.bookquiver.com/julia-blackburn)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7975-837-2
- Pages: 192
- Published: 1996-08-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping out fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned...