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Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth.
With the same intense curiosity and narrative flair she displayed in her widely-praised book Color, Finlay journeys 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. She risks confronting scorpions to crawl through Cleopatra’s long-deserted emerald mines, tries her hand at gem cutting in the dusty Sri Lankan city where Marco Polo bartered for sapphires, and investigates a rumor that fifty years ago most of the world’s amber was mined by prisoners in a Soviet gulag.
Jewels is a unique and often exhilarating voyage through history, across cultures, deep into the earth’s mantle, and up to the glittering heights of fame, power, and wealth. From the fabled curse of the Hope Diamond, to the disturbing truths about how pearls are cultured, to the peasants who were once executed for carrying amber to the centuries-old quest by magicians and scientists to make a perfect diamond, Jewels tells dazzling stories with a wonderment and brilliance truly worthy of its subjects.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Amber Succinite: amber Succinum is the Latin term for a substance that is ultimately derived from sap (succus is Latin for sap or juice). The Greeks called amber elektron, meaning "the sun," because it comes in all the colors of the sun, bright yellow and s...
评分Amber Succinite: amber Succinum is the Latin term for a substance that is ultimately derived from sap (succus is Latin for sap or juice). The Greeks called amber elektron, meaning "the sun," because it comes in all the colors of the sun, bright yellow and s...
评分Amber Succinite: amber Succinum is the Latin term for a substance that is ultimately derived from sap (succus is Latin for sap or juice). The Greeks called amber elektron, meaning "the sun," because it comes in all the colors of the sun, bright yellow and s...
评分Amber Succinite: amber Succinum is the Latin term for a substance that is ultimately derived from sap (succus is Latin for sap or juice). The Greeks called amber elektron, meaning "the sun," because it comes in all the colors of the sun, bright yellow and s...
评分Amber Succinite: amber Succinum is the Latin term for a substance that is ultimately derived from sap (succus is Latin for sap or juice). The Greeks called amber elektron, meaning "the sun," because it comes in all the colors of the sun, bright yellow and s...
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评分从结构上看，这部作品的野心是显而易见的，它试图在宏大的历史背景下，探讨一些关于权力、信仰和人性救赎的永恒主题。作者并非简单地复述历史事件，而是巧妙地将虚构的人物命运与真实的历史节点交织在一起，形成了一种虚实相生的迷人效果。这种叙事手法要求极高的技巧，稍有不慎便会显得刻意或生硬，但在这本书里，过渡自然流畅，历史的重量感被有效地转化为了驱动情节发展的内在动力。读完合上书本的那一刻，留给我的不仅仅是故事的结局，更是关于“真相的代价”这个命题的深刻反思，思考良久，久久不能平息。
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