From Satan's Crown to the Holy Grail

出版者:Greenwood Pub Group

作者:Morgan, Diane

页数:224

出版时间:2007-4

价格:$ 45.14

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9780275991234

This book discusses the origin of the emerald, its peculiar structure, and its strange allure. The story weaves across several continents and thousands of years. It is a tale of conquistadors, treachery, shipwrecks, and alchemy. Along the way, we meet scientists and kings, and the great emeralds are born, mined, smuggled, cut, and sold. It also discusses the modern art of making synthetic emeralds. From the fastnesses of Afghanistan to the steamy jungles of Colombia and Zimbabwe, from the sands of Egypt to the bitter Urals, this is the story of a stone whose strange journey reflects the yearnings, greed, passions, and longing for beauty of the human race.