The Diamond
Edition: Largeprint edition
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: May 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780786285891
Subjects: Regent diamond; Fiction; Fiction - Historical; Historical - General; Diamonds; Collectors and collecting; Diamond mines and mining
First sentence: ON OCTOBER 16, 1816, ON THE FOUL ISLAND OF SAINT HELENA, in the middle of precisely nowhere in the South Atlantic Ocean, I watched the emperor's hair being cut.