HB. Pages: 144. Colorful pictures.

Here, in five parts, is the story of the diamond. From the fabled mines of Golconda, for centuries the only source of diamonds in the world, to the stone itself, from the treasuries of palaces to the riches of modern-day jewellery and the fortunes of diamond cutters, the text discovers the magical and continuing fascination of diamond. The book is lavishly covered with illustrated with colour photographs from a numnber os sources.