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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
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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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