Jewels: A Secret History e-bog

'Glorious . . . anecdote and information accumulate with marvellous abundance and a passionate sense of the fascination of jewels' SpectatorAmber is the tears of prehistoric trees.One gem links Queen Victoria and a skeleton.Cleopatra drank a pearl to win a bet. A man turned into a diamond.When we put on jewels, what are we really wearing?Victoria Finlay travels the world to tell the true stories of these miraculous oddities of nature.'Filled with eye-catching incidents and stories . . . Finlay's evidence glitters from every page' Sunday Telegraph'A fascinating and exhaustive travelogue' Times Literary Supplement