description: Paperback. Pub Date :2003-02-03 304 English HarperCollins UK Diamonds are almost completely useless but prized above all other gems Historically they have attracted crimes of passion and awful cold-blooded efficiency. have bedazzled the greatest filmstars and the most opulent courts. and provided the incentive for adventure. destruction and greed on a monumental scale. No one company is more identified with diamonds than the South African-based De Beers.Until the collapse of the Iron Curtain they controlled the diamond . market After the collapse. they still controlled it - once they had bought up most of the diamonds emerging from the former Soviet Union They are secretive. discreet and very. very powerful A strike in Northern Canada could hardly seem to trouble them... Except that it prefigured a diamond rush in a territory over which they had ...
language: English
title: Diamond : The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
titlecomplete: Diamond : The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair
genres: Business, Historical, Geology, Microhistory, Natural History, Science, Nonfiction, World History, Africa, History
ratings_count: 484
publisher: Harpercollins Pb