$46.80
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2021
Summary
Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds
The story of the intrepid Australian geologists who discovered pink diamonds in the Kimberley.
The remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has a rich history and unique geography. In the 1960s De Beers, the world’s largest diamond company, sent gem-hunters to the area but they came away empty-handed. It was a vast region to survey, and they’d overlooked something vital.
A few years later, a team of Australian g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522877250 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522877257 |
| Author: | Stuart Kells |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 465g |
| Dimensions: | 231mm x 152mm x 25mm |
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‘Fascinating and lucid … a valuable insight into an industry once widely praised but now undervalued by a nation that relies on it so strongly.’ –Geoffrey Blainey
Fascinating and lucid . a valuable insight into an industry once widely praised but now undervalued by a nation that relies on it so strongly.” - Geoffrey Blainey
About The Author
Stuart Kells
Historian Stuart Kells has twice won the Ashurst Business Literature Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the NSW Premier’s General History Prize (twice) and the University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award. Kells’ shorter pieces have appeared in The Paris Review, The Times, Lapham’s Quarterly, Smithsonian, The Guardian, National Geographic Traveller and The Daily Beast. He is Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University’s College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce.
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