Spanish audio books download free Jewels: A Secret History CHM ePub Victoria Finlay 9780345466952

Jewels: A Secret History
by Victoria Finlay
Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
---|---|
ISBN: | 9780345466952 |
Pages: | 496 |
Format: | pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2 |
File size: | 13 Mb |
Date posting: | 2021-02-28 |
DOWNLOAD |
Description
Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth. With the same intense curiosity and narrative flair she displayed in her widely-praised book Color, Finlay journeys from the underground opal churches of outback Australia to the once pearl-rich rivers of Scotland; from the peridot mines on an Apache reservation in Arizona to the remote ruby mines in the mountains of northern Burma. She risks confronting scorpions to crawl through Cleopatra’s long-deserted emerald mines, tries her hand at gem cutting in the dusty Sri Lankan city where Marco Polo bartered for sapphires, and investigates a rumor that fifty years ago most of the world’s amber was mined by prisoners in a Soviet gulag. Jewels is a unique and often exhilarating voyage through history, across cultures, deep into the earth’s mantle, and up to the glittering heights of fame, power, and wealth. From the fabled curse of the Hope Diamond, to the disturbing truths about how pearls are cultured, to the peasants who were once executed for carrying amber to the centuries-old quest by magicians and scientists to make a perfect diamond, Jewels tells dazzling stories with a wonderment and brilliance truly worthy of its subjects.
See Also
- Ebook for cell phone download Lonely Planet Discover Italy by Alison Bing in English PDB PDF FB2
- Ebook free download forums Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever 9780743491730 in English by Greg Cox
- Free phone book download The People Factor: How Building Great Relationships and Ending Bad Ones Unlocks Your God-Given Purpose 9781400205028
- Books google downloader Letters to Barbra English version MOBI
- Best audiobooks download free I've Got My Eyes on You
- Free ebook pdf format download People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil
- Free spanish audio books download The Book of Disquiet
- Joomla pdf ebook download free Batman: Troika 9781401285876 in English