The Last Empire: De Beers Diamonds and the World.

Contemporary Review | March 1, 1994| | Copyright

Diamonds: crystallised history, romance, avarice, treachery, The Moonstone, the Koh-I-Noor, A Girl's Best Friend. Far Away From India and Brazil came the stones and their fantastic stories.

In the meantime Africa slept frugally under a godly Boer moon -- until 1867. A farm lad on the de Beers farm found a 'mooi klip' (a pretty pebble) which he gave to his sister. It was passed on to a friend who thought it could be a diamond. But it took two years before experts and merchants could believe it. By 1871 the great rush had begun, with Cecil Rhodes still only eighteen in the ...

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