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Hope: Adventures of a Diamond

Categorie	Edelstenen & Juwelen
Boeknummer	#369913-AF9
Titel	Hope: Adventures of a Diamond
Auteur	Fowler, Marian
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Simon & Schuster
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	0743231856
ISBN13	9780743231855
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blue boards, silver lettered spine, illustrated with some photographs in colour, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Allegedly a curse to those that own it, the Hope Diamond - a flawless blue diamond of over forty-five carats - has inspired centuries of legends and lies, fabulous superstition and fierce passion. In rich, shimmering prose, Marian Fowler explains how the Hope Diamond was formed in nature - and how it was taken from the mines and temples of India to the royal courts of seventeenth-century Europe. Acquired and cherished by Louis XIV, the stone was stolen in an almost farcical French Revolution robbery. It resurfaced twenty years later in London and passed through numerous hands, including those of a notorious music hall singer, a socially ambitious gold miner's daughter and the famous jeweller Harry Winston - until it finally arrived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. At onc... (Lees verder)e erudite and extravagantly entertaining, HOPE is an irresistible and alluring work of social history, bringing to vivid life the diverse parade of men and women who were linked by their obsession with the world's rarest jewel.
Pagina's	366
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 9,00

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