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Hope: Adventures of a Diamond by Fowler, Marian
by Fowler, Marian | HC | VeryGood
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Características del artículo
- Estado
- En muy buen estado
- Notas del vendedor
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780345444868
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0345444868
ISBN-13
9780345444868
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1917643
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hope : Adventures of a Diamond
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
General, Rocks & Minerals
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-511017
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Hope: Adventures of a Diamondis a copious, unstinting work of popular scholarship, and a rousing tale of the flawless sapphire blue stone that holds 'the secret of Creation itself.' Marian Fowler's chronological approach to the material is well organized and richly detailed, and the book's insights on changing values ascribed to the diamond -- on how so many paid so much for a mere lump of mineral -- are particularly strong." --Quill and Quire "Fowler's detailed, vivid description of the gem's rough life in India is some of her best work. . . . . Fowler has done a fine job conveying what people have created in their minds from the reflection of this miraculous, but mute, stone." --The Globe and Mail
Dewey Decimal
736.23
Synopsis
The Hope Diamondthe largest and most beautiful blue diamond ever foundhas inspired centuries of legends and lies, fabulous superstition, and fierce passion. French kings and ravishing Hollywood stars have worn it next to their ♥ reckless aristocrats have let it slip through their fingers. Flaunted, hidden, stolen, and cursed, the Hope Diamond still tantalizes and inspires all who lay eyes on it. Now inHope: Adventures of a Diamond, Marian Fowler tells the riveting story of this mythical gem and the extraordinary men and women who have owned and lost it. It is a tale that begins more than a billion years ago in the mountains of India where the gem was forged of basest materials. Unearthed sometime before the birth of Christ, it was more than twice its present size and wondrously shaped. For long slow centuries, the immense blue stone, revered as a divine gift, probably served as the unwinking eye in a statue of a Hindu god. With the arrival of Europeans, the Diamond was snatched from the realm of the mystical and thrust into the world of commerce, materialism, and political symbolism. Marian Fowler brilliantly unfolds the complex story of how French merchant/adventurer Jean-Baptiste Tavernier acquired the sacred diamond in India and sold it to the one monarch who couldand wouldpay for it, King Louis XIV of France. Cut and polished to half its original size, the diamond remained in the possession of the house of Bourbon, passed down from Louis to Louis, until a cabal of common thieves stole it during the French Revolution. The pace quickens once the diamond comes into the possession of Philip Hope, the scion of a Dutch-based trading and banking empire who gave it the name it has carried ever since. But the heady days in the London townhouses and country estates of the Hope family were brief, and by the twentieth century, the Hope Diamond had become the object of unseemly marital wrangling and social climbing of American millionaires. It was only when diamond master Harry Winston donated this prize to the Smithsonian Institution that the Hope was finally safe and accessible to all who wanted to admire it. A sweeping saga peopled with the world's most beautiful women and most unprincipled men,Hope: Adventures of a Diamondis at once a page-turning thriller and a glittering social history of the astonishing few who cravedand could affordsuch a gem. Dazzling and delicious, this is a book truly worthy of its flawless, priceless subject.
LC Classification Number
NK7663.F68 2002
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