Barren Lands An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic

Name: Barren Lands An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic
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ISBN: 9780805071856

ISBN-10: 0805071857

ISBN-13: 9780805071856

Edition: Revised

Authors: Kevin Krajick

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In the late 1970s, two men set out on what would prove to be a twenty-year quest to find a North American gem mine, along a fabled path that had defied sixteenth-century explorers, Wild West fortune seekers, and modern geologists. They are an unlikely pair: Chuck Fipke, a ragged 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 follow a trail of clues left by predecessors-and a few actual gems-all the way from backwoods Arkansas up the glaciated high Rockies into the vast and haunted barren lands of northern Canada. With a South African geochemist's…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 10/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Kevin Krajick is a journalist. He lives in New York City.