Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession

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Plume Books, 2002 - Business & Economics - 288 pages
For centuries, diamonds have symbolized wealth, prestige and love; however, behind those symbols lies a world of deceit, monopoly and war.

Hart follows the diamond trail around the globe, from the basement room where Gabi Tolkowsky, the world's greatest diamond cutter, faced the 599-carat Centenary diamond, to the fogbound smugglers' paradise of Africa's Diamond Coast. He records the heroic struggle of the 24-year old woman who discovered a multibillion dollar diamond mine on the Arctic Circle and describes the company that feared her most, masterminds of the great and shadowy diamond cartel.

Combining history, science, business, and adventure, Diamondcaptures the essence of this priceless gem and the world that surrounds it.

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Contents

A Large Pink
1
The Diamond Seas
22
The Middle Empire
32
Copyright

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About the author (2002)

Matthew Hart is a correspondent for the New York trade magazine, Rapaport Diamond Report, as well as the magazine's former mining editor. His articles on diamonds have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, W, and The Financial Post.

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