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Diamond: The History of a Cold-blooded Love Affair by Matthew Hart (Hardcover, 2002)
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Diamonds are almost completely useless, but are prized above all other gems. Historically they have attracted crimes of passion and awful cold-blooded efficiency, have bedazzled the greatest filmstars and the most opulent courts, and provided the incentive for adventure, destruction and greed on a monumental scale. No one company is more identified with diamonds than the South African based De Beers. Until the collapse of the Iron Curtain they controlled the diamond market. After the collapse, they still controlled it - once they had bought up most of the diamonds emerging from the former Soviet Union. They are secretive, discreet and very, very powerful. A strike in Northern Canada could hardly seem to trouble them. Except that it prefigured a diamond rush in a territory over which they had no influence by prospectors they did not own. And the strike promised enormous riches. Here is the true story of the strike that upset the diamond kings, the process by which they are cut, fashioned, smuggled and stolen, the legends and superstitions that are attached to them, the characters who comprise the great diamond prospectors and, above all, of the shadowy hand of De Beers for whom diamonds are forever.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139781841152790
eBay Product ID (ePID)86876139
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
Publication NameDiamond: the History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
LanguageEnglish
SubjectChemistry, Science, Business
Publication Year2002
TypeTextbook
AuthorMatthew Hart
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight524 g
Item Width156 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorMatthew Hart
TopicBooks
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- 25 Aug, 2021
Superb diamond book.
If you have any interest in diamonds, you will not be able to put this brilliant book down!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
