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03532aim a2200433Ka 4500 001 B69B399A4C7A11EE8105036A52ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230906010035 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 230105s2023 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0593748867 020 $a 9780593748862 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a NAT030000 $a NAT030000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Finlay, Victoria. 245 10 $a Jewels $h [electronic resource] : $b A secret history. $c Victoria Finlay. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a New York : $b Books on Tape, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource (16 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 14:21:04 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Victoria Finlay. 520 $a 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. 538 $a Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 650 17 $a Nonfiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a History. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Nature. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Finlay, Victoria. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=9420181 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Excerpt $u https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=73fdf94f-c852-49a8-8778-9cb2b73cb8ba&.epub-sample.overdrive.com $z Sample 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/%7B73FDF94F-C852-49A8-8778-9CB2B73CB8BA%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/%7B73FDF94F-C852-49A8-8778-9CB2B73CB8BA%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/73fdf94f-c852-49a8-8778-9cb2b73cb8ba $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230906010406.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B69B399A4C7A11EE8105036A52ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search