TITLE:
Jewels : a secret history / Victoria Finlay.
Former Title:
Buried treasure : travels through the jewel box
Publication Date:
2006
Publication Information:
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks,
Physical Description:
xvi, 472 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., maps.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-450) and index.
Summary:
The author leads the reader on a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth. Journey 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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780345466952
General Note:
Originally published in Great Britain as Buried Treasure: Travels through the Jewel box.
