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Jewels: A Secret History ebok
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'Glorious . . . anecdote and information accumulate with marvellous abundance and a passionate sense of the fascination of jewels' SpectatorAmber is the tears of prehistoric trees.One gem links Queen Victoria and a skeleton.Cleopatra drank a pearl to win a bet. A man turned into a diamond.When we put on jewels, what are we really wearing?Victoria Finlay travels the world to tell the true stories of these miraculous oddities of nature.'Filled with eye-catching incidents and stories . . . Finlay'…
Forlag
Sceptre
Utgitt
3 november 2022
Sjanger
Dokumentar og fakta, Natur og dyr, Historie, Hobby og fritid, Reise
Språk
English
Format
epub
DRM-beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781399716703
'Glorious . . . anecdote and information accumulate with marvellous abundance and a passionate sense of the fascination of jewels' Spectator
Amber is the tears of prehistoric trees.
One gem links Queen Victoria and a skeleton.
Cleopatra drank a pearl to win a bet.
A man turned into a diamond.
When we put on jewels, what are we really wearing?
Victoria Finlay travels the world to tell the true stories of these miraculous oddities of nature.
'Filled with eye-catching incidents and stories . . . Finlay's evidence glitters from every page' Sunday Telegraph
'A fascinating and exhaustive travelogue' Times Literary Supplement
Amber is the tears of prehistoric trees.
One gem links Queen Victoria and a skeleton.
Cleopatra drank a pearl to win a bet.
A man turned into a diamond.
When we put on jewels, what are we really wearing?
Victoria Finlay travels the world to tell the true stories of these miraculous oddities of nature.
'Filled with eye-catching incidents and stories . . . Finlay's evidence glitters from every page' Sunday Telegraph
'A fascinating and exhaustive travelogue' Times Literary Supplement
