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BookBrowse Reviews The Heartless Stone: A panoramic and unflinching look at the modern diamond industry

The Heartless Stone
A Journey Through The World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire
by Tom Zoellner
Paperback, Jun 2007,
304 pages.
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From the book jacket: The Heartless Stone journeys across six continents to uncover the secrets behind one of our most luxurious and costly status symbols. The book takes you inside illegal mines in Brazil, diamond smuggling rings in Africa, exploration rigs above the Arctic Circle, the sweltering polishing shops of India. You will meet De Beers executives in London, high-tech tunnel drillers in Australia, advertising gurus in Japan, starving soldiers in Angola, chemists in Siberia, dealers in Belgium. They are all part of a vast economy which supports the most sustained, expensive and successful advertising campaign in history.

Comment: Diamonds are not particularly rare in nature, nor do they have any intrinsic value, so how did they become the symbol of our deepest...
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Tom Zoellner has worked as a contributing editor for Men's Health magazine and as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also the co-author of An Ordinary Man, the autobiography of Paul Rusesabagina, whose actions during the 1994 Rwandan genocide were portrayed in the movie Hotel Rwanda. Zoellner lives in New York City and is at work on a third book.

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This review was originally published in June 2006, and has been updated for the June 2007 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.
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