Richard W. Wise

The French Blue (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

He was the restless son of a cartographer, she the illegitimate daughter of a French courtesan and a Persian king.

40 years and 60,000 leagues, the true-to-life adventures of Jean Baptiste Tavernier, his great love Madeleine de Goisse and the world's most famous diamond. Today known as the Hope Diamond but for the first 250 years of its existence it was known simply as The French Blue.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Richard W. Wise
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780972822305
• Artikelnr.: 70911269

Autorenporträt

Richard W. Wise is a former Alinsky-style community organizer. In the 1970s, he ran projects in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In the 1980s, he became a goldsmith and received his degree as a Graduate Gemologist. His latest book, The Dawning: 31,000 BC, is set 33,000 years ago in Southern France.

His first book, Secrets Of The Gem Trade, The Connoisseur's Guide to Precious Gemstones, was published in 2003 became a critically acclaimed best seller and is now considered a classic. The vastly expanded and updated second edition appeared in 2016. His first novel, The French Blue (2010), a novel of the 17th-century gem trade, tells the exciting backstory of the notorious Hope Diamond. The French Blue won a 2011 International Book Award in Historical Fiction. He is also the author of Redlined: A Novel of Boston. Set in the gogo 1970s, Redlined tells the story of how a Boston neighborhood took on the big Boston banks and won.