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Diamonds (Paperback)

by Sam North (Author)
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  • Paperback: 283 pages
  • Publisher: Domhan Books (May 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1583456104
  • ISBN-13: 978-1583456101
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.4 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,569,857 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Diamonds is the true tale of the Great Diamond Rush of 1872. No one who left home young to seek their fortune in California set out with the intention of startiving to death. Many did through a lack of funds or an absence of luck. For a while, during the Great Rush it seemed that the law of God whereby 'a man shall live by the sweat of his brow' had been revoked.

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Diamonds is the culmination of many years of research into this story of two men who discovered American diamonds and spent the rest of their time battling the powerful figures of the period; Bill Ralston from the Bank of California, Horace Greely, General Colton, Asbury Harpending, Baron Rothschild and Charles Tiffany who all seemed bent of seperating them from their new fortune.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Dreadful amateur concoction, 1 Mar 2002
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I bought this book thinking, well that's interesting. I've never read much about the diamond rush before. Gold rush, obviously. But there was a diamond rush? No. Well, having just waded through this pile of steaming awfulness, I can't say I know much more after the experience then when I started. What I do know is that Mr. North's prose is so appallingly amateur, bland and abjectly boring, by the first hundred pages I didn't care about 'the rush'. The characters were lifeless and brooding in, I suppose, a well meaning attempt to avoid cliché, but in the end they were sketched so thinly they were reduced to cartoons that I've seen in a thousand and one spaghetti westerns. The language of the book was poor. A strange hackneyed mishmash of middle England trying desperately to sound remotely American. Dire. Truly dire. I feel very much let down, I have better things I could have spent my hard earned cash on.
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