The blood stone /
In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal. |
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| Physical Description: | 340 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0374308462 9780374308469 |