The blood stone
By: Jamila Gavin.
Publisher: Egmont
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Veroneo, Geronimo, -- fl. 1630 to 1653 -- Juvenile fiction.; Veroneo, Geronimo, -- fl. 1630 to 1653 -- Fiction.; Diamonds -- Fiction.; Voyages and travels -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Extrasensory perception -- Fiction.; Taj Mahal (Agra, India) -- Fiction.; India -- History -- 1526-1765 -- Fiction.; Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797 -- Fiction.; Italy -- History -- 1559-1789 -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal.