《From Satan's Crown to the Holy Grail》是2007年Greenwood Pub Group出版社出版的圖書，作者是Morgan, Diane。
基本介紹
- 外文名：From Satan's Crown to the Holy Grail
- 作者：Morgan, Diane
- 出版時間：2007年4月
- 出版社：Greenwood Pub Group
- ISBN：9780275991234
內容簡介
This book discusses the origin of the emerald, its peculiar structure, and its strange allure. The story weaves across several continents and thousands of years. It is a tale of conquistadors, treachery, shipwrecks, and alchemy. Along the way, we meet scientists and kings, and the great emeralds are born, mined, smuggled, cut, and sold. It also discusses the modern art of making synthetic emeralds. From the fastnesses of Afghanistan to the steamy jungles of Colombia and Zimbabwe, from the sands of Egypt to the bitter Urals, this is the story of a stone whose strange journey reflects the yearnings, greed, passions, and longing for beauty of the human race.
