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Jewels: A Secret History
Taschenbuch von Victoria Finlay
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Victoria Finlay
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Antiquitäten
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780345466952
ISBN-10: 0345466950
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Finlay, Victoria
Hersteller: RANDOM HOUSE
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 208 x 148 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Victoria Finlay
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.08.2007
Gewicht: 0,399 kg
Artikel-ID: 102114822
Über den Autor
Victoria Finlay
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Antiquitäten
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780345466952
ISBN-10: 0345466950
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Finlay, Victoria
Hersteller: RANDOM HOUSE
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 208 x 148 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Victoria Finlay
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.08.2007
Gewicht: 0,399 kg
Artikel-ID: 102114822
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