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Throughout history the desire for jewels has made and destroyed individual, families and even empires. Today, despite our ability to manufacture synthetics, gemstones still hold their appeal. Victoria Finlay investigates why in her extraordinary journey to uncover the hidden world of precious stones. The starting point is a sapphire given to her by her parents that was harvested, not by a miner as she had imagined but by men in muddy loincloths trawling a warm stream in Sri Lanka. The extraordinary travels in JEWELS: A SECRET HISTORY take her cycling along the Baltic Amber Route, down the emerald mines of Afghanistan. As we learn from a ruby trader in Burma, the more precious a jewel, the greater the human cost of acquiring it, and JEWELS: A SECRET HISTORY also explores the human histories of gemstones. Along the way we learn from Victoria, a qualified gemologist, how to grade a pearl, what New Age 'crystal therapy' is about, and why one of the rarest sapphires in the world is orange. Victoria Finlay's unique blending of travelogue and narrative history ensures that this book, the first for the general reader, will be as unforgettable as the stones themselves.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Lifestyle, sport & leisure Natural history Rocks, minerals & fossils

• Plný název: Jewels: A Secret History
• Autor: Victoria Finlay
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 496
• EAN: 9780340830147
• ISBN: 034083014X
• ID: 04061018
• Nakladatelství: Hodder & Stoughton
• Hmotnost: 375 g
• Rozměry: 197 × 128 × 29 mm
• Datum vydání: 25. January 2007

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