Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic
by Krajick, Kevin

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Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic: The deepest mysteries of the earth – and of the human heart – are plumped in Kevin Krajick's riveting true tale of the 450-year search for a North American diamond mine, and the two men who finally found it, in the remotest reaches of the Far North. In the late 1970's these treasure hunters set out on a twenty-year quest, along a fabled path that had defied sixteenth-century explorers. Wild West fortune seekers, and modern geologists. They were an unlikely team: Chuck Fipke, a fanatical prospector with a singular talent for finding sand-size mineral grains, and Stew Blusson, an ultra-tough geologist and helicopter pilot. Inventive, eccentric, and ruthless, they followed a 5,000-mile trail of clues left by predecessors from backwoods Arkansas up the glaciated high Rockies, into the vast and haunted barren lands of northern Canada. There they outwitted the immense De Beers cartel to make one of the world's greatest diamond discoveries – setting off a stampede unseen since the Klondike gold rush. A story of obsession and scientific intrigue, Barren Lands in both an elegy to one of the earth's last great places and an unforgettable journey for those who, in the words of a nineteenth-century trapper, “want to see that country before it is all gone.”

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Weight:	0.42 kg
Price:	CDN$ 23.95 (US$ 23.31)

ISBN-10:	0805071857
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780805071856
Author:	Krajick, Kevin
Publisher:	Henry Holt & Company New York
Publication Date:	10/2002
Pages:	464 pages
Size/Dimensions:	1.25 x 5.25 x 8.5 inches
Binding:	Paperback

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Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arcticby Krajick, Kevin

Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic
by Krajick, Kevin