Diamonds Diamonds

Diamonds

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Publisher Description

Experience the early, exciting days at the Kimberley diamond mines in southern Africa through a friend of the famous Barney Barnato, one of the 'Kings of the Kimberley'. Ask the questions that needed to be asked following his premature, tragic death. Feel the envy, hate and love engendered on the diamond fields.

Live through the terror of the wars in Angola and Sierra Leone when the blood diamonds were used to pay the price of the human tragedies resulting from raging ambition. Imagine life in the Kalahari Desert and the connectios with the diamond industry.

Follow a diamond heist in London through Monte Carlo to Antwerp, the 'City of Diamonds'.

Take a side trip to the Witwatersrand to the scenes of the great gold discovery in the Transvaal and engage with a diamond discovery in Peru and the life and death actions of those wishing to gain control of the mine. Meet the spirit of a famous early Indian diamond, the Koh-I-Nor.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2016
13 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
300
Pages
PUBLISHER
DavidRPhillips
SIZE
243
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