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Tears of Mermaids par Bloom, Stephen
by Bloom, Stephen | PB | Good
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Bon
- Remarques du vendeur
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780312573638
- Book Title
- Tears of Mermaids : the Secret Story of Pearls
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, Crafts & Hobbies
- Topic
- Jewelry, Industries / Manufacturing
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 12.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Product Information
A round, luminescent pearl is the simplest and most perfect gem. Columbus sought--and found--this precious jewel coveted by his Spanish sovereigns, sparking popularity throughout Europe. Fashion icons Jacqueline Kennedy, Princess Grace, and Michelle Obama cherished them, making them iconic. And designer Coco Chanel raised them to new heights, bringing pearls-- fake and real--to women everywhere. In Tears of Mermaids , Stephen G. Bloom travels 30,000 miles in an effort to trace a single pearl--from the moment a diver off the coast of Australia scoops an oyster containing a single luminescent pearl from the ocean floor to the instant a woman 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 guarded by gun-toting sentries, farms for pearls in rural China, and even goes backstage at Christie's for a fast and furious auction of the most expensive pearl ever sold. Teeming with rogue humor and uncanny intelligence, Tears of Mermaids weaves a nonstop detective story whose main character is the world's most enduring jewel.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312573634
ISBN-13
9780312573638
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99663779
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tears of Mermaids : the Secret Story of Pearls
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Jewelry, Industries / Manufacturing
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Business & Economics, Crafts & Hobbies
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
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Bloom, a journalism professor at the University of Iowa, has poured his passion into Tears of Mermaids: The Secret Story of Pearls , a tell-all book about pearls and the network that delivers them to the world's well-dressed women. The more we learn, the more contagious his passion becomes. He introduces characters worthy of a screenplay -- the swaggering Australian pearl lord, the Chinese pearler in her Cadillac and sprayed-on jeans, and the improbable "Rana of Fresno," whose home in a modest subdivision is a treasure chest of rare pearls.a fascinating book., Stephen Bloom takes us into a world so hidden it might as well be underwater. This richly-written book about pearls is about more than the bauble. It is about the human story--both glorious and sad--behind those organic spheres that have been the subject of popular fascination since the discovery of the Americas. An incredible feat of reportage., Bloom's love of pearls--which are, after all, "essentially calcium-coated beads"--allows him to draw back the curtain on the business of dealing in them without ruining his or the reader's pleasure in their charms., Bloom's adventure goes a long way in proving the pearl is anything but plain-especially when he's observing an auction at Christie's, where a string of 68 gumball-sized pearls belonging to an Indian Maharaja are up for grabs. Final price? $6.3 million.", Forget The Treasure of Sierra Madre --gold is so boring when it's up against the story of pearls. In Tears of Mermaids , Stephen Bloom takes you into a world of bravado and mystery as he traces, in a multi-continent quest, where pearls come from. Bloom, in league with writers who go deeper and practice what I call "method journalism", did everything but become an oyster to understand pearls. His passion for the pearl is infectious--it will be difficult for you to put this book down., In Tears of Mermaids , Stephen G. Bloom tells the history of the pearl trade down to the present day, focusing in particular on the harvesting and marketing of pearls in today's global markets. As Mr. Bloom makes clear, pearls are still big business, with dealers routinely exchanging hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time for just the right ones. And certain pearls command astonishing prices. One striking quality of pearls, Mr. Bloom tells us, is the aesthetic rapport they form with their wearers, absorbing body heat and seeming to glow and reflect luminescence onto the skin. For millennia, only the wealthiest members of society could hope to know this quality first-hand. And now millions of people can., a labor of love and obsession. Bloom was inspired by a necklace his mother would wear only on special occasions and wound up traveling 30,000 miles over four years in his quest to uncover info on the global pearl trade and its origins., Bloom's adventure goes a long way in proving the pearl is anything but plain-especially when he's observing an auction at Christie's, where a string of 68 gumball-sized pearls belonging to an Indian Maharaja are up for grabs. Final price? $6.3 million., The most memorable pearls in Tears of Mermaids are not in the necklace Michelle Obama wears, but the ones that are missing. Time after time, a fisherman, diver, or small-scale pearl farmer recalls a tremendous pearl he found on the ocean floor. But they always disappear: lost, sold by a spouse, swindled away by a supposed friend. The fishermen seem upset, but not much. They seem to know, even without an economics class, that the value is not the pearl itself, but the setting., Tears of Mermaids is more than just the biography of a milky orb. It's also an adventurer's travel log, in which Bloom muses on his favorite experiences like living as a deckhand on an Australian pearling vessel and singing karaoke with Chinese businessmen. Bloom's adventure goes a long way in proving the pearl is anything but plain-especially when he's observing an auction at Christie's, where a string of 68 gumball-sized pearls belonging to an Indian Maharaja are up for grabs. Final price? $6.3 million.
Copyright Date
2011
Dewey Decimal
338.3/71412
Dewey Edition
22
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