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Jewels: a secret history


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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.

Contents

Amber -- Jet -- Pearl -- Opal -- Peridot -- Emerald -- Sapphire -- Ruby -- Diamond.

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    New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007

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    • 9780345466952
    • 0345466950

Annotations / title notes

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    • Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2006.
    • Originally published in Great Britain as Buried Treasure: Travels through the Jewel box.

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