With a scholar's precision and a novelist's eye, Stefan Kanfer tells the inside story of De Beers Consolidated Mines - from the nineteenth century diamond rush that transformed Johannes De Beer's humble South African farm into an exotic klondike, to the Oppenheimers' shadow empire that has achieved umatched global reach.
With a scholar's precision and a novelist's eye, Stefan Kanfer tells the inside story of De Beers Consolidated Mines - from the nineteenth century diamond rush that transformed Johannes De Beer's humble South African farm into an exotic klondike, to the Oppenheimers' shadow empire that has achieved umatched global reach.
The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World
416The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World
416Paperback(Reprint)
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780374524265 |
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Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date: | 04/30/1995 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 416 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.98(d) |