Diamonds: An Early History of the King of Gems [Audiobook] download free by Jack Ogden
- Listen audiobook: Diamonds: An Early History of the King of Gems
- Author: Jack Ogden
- Release date: 2018/12/24
- Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780300215663
- Rating: 7.99 of 10
- Votes: 306
- Review by: Zeke Kuhn
- Review rating: 8.19 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/10
- Duration: 5H8M41S in 256 kbps (81.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-14
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA, WavPack, WAV, MPEG4, MP3 (compression TAR.LZO, RAR, ISO, ACE, AZW3, ARC, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 408
- Includes a PDF summary of 41 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 31M (8.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A lavishly illustrated, in-depth early history covering two thousand years of diamond jewelry and commerce, from the Indian mines to European merchants, courts, and workshops This richly illustrated history of diamonds illuminates myriad facets of the 'king of gems,' including a cast of larger-than-life characters such as Alexander the Great, the Mughal emperor Jahangir, and East India Company adventurers. It's an in-depth study tracing the story of diamonds from their early mining and trade more than two thousand years ago to the 1700s, when Brazil displaced India as the world's primary diamond supplier. Jack Ogden, a historian and gemologist specializing in ancient gems and jewelry, describes the early history of diamond jewelry, the development of diamond cutting, and how diamonds were assessed and valued. The book includes more than one hundred captivating images, from close-up full-color photographs of historic diamond-set jewelry (some previously unpublished), to photomicrographs of individual gems and illustrations of medieval manuscripts, as well as diagrams depicting historical methods of cutting and polishing diamonds.
- Other categories, genre or collection: History Of Science, Rocks, Minerals & Fossils, Mineralogy & Gems, Social & Cultural History
- Download servers: Send U It, Google Drive, FreakShare, MEGA, BitShare. Compressed in TAR.LZO, RAR, ISO, ACE, AZW3, ARC, ZIP
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 53.27 USD
- Dimensions: 171x238x27mm
- Weight: 1,089g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United States
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