The Stone of Heaven
Subtitle: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade
Edition: 1 Amer ed edition
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: January 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780316525961
Subjects: Science; Nature; Science/Mathematics; Asia - General; Rocks & Minerals; History / Far East; Earth Sciences - Geology; 1965-; Burma; Jadeite (Petrology); Levy, Adrian,; Scott-Clark, Cathy,; Travel
First sentence: Inside fusty chronicles penned in a forgotten, languid script that few can now understand, storytellers recorded how it all began.