Book
Tears of mermaids: the secret story of pearls
St. Martin's Press
2009
Abstract
"Stephen G. Bloom is a writer who fully understands the allure of pearls and their ability to mesmerize. For Tears of Mermaids, Bloom traveled thirty thousand miles in an effort to trace a single pearl - from the moment a diver off the coast of Australia scoops from the ocean floor an oyster containing a single luminescent pearl to the instant a woman on the other side of the world fastens the clasp of a strand containing the same orb. Bloom chronicles the never-before-told saga of the global pearl trade by gaining access to clandestine outposts in China, the Philippines, French Polynesia, and Australia. He infiltrates high-tech pearl farms and processing facilities guarded by gun-toting sentries, and insinuates himself into the lives of powerful international pearl lords. Bloom farms for pearls in rural China, goes behind the scenes at million-dollar auctions in Hong Kong, trails pearl brokers and Internet entrepreneurs in Asia, hires himself out as a deckhand on an Australian pearling vessel, and goes backstage at Christie's for a fast and furious auction of the most expensive pearl ever sold."--BOOK JACKET.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Tears of mermaids: the secret story of pearls
- Creators
- Stephen G Bloom - University of Iowa, Journalism and Mass Communication
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press; New York
- ISBN
- 9780312363260; 0312363265
- Number of pages
- x, 382 pages
- Alternative title
- Secret story of pearls
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2009
- Academic Unit
- Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9983903697702771
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