TY - BOOK AU - Finlay,Victoria TI - Jewels: a secret history SN - 0345466950 (pbk.) PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Random House Trade Paperbacks KW - Jewelry making KW - Jewelry KW - Precious stones N1 - Originally published in Great Britain as Buried Treasure: Travels through the Jewel box; Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2006; Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-450) and index; Amber -- Jet -- Pearl -- Opal -- Peridot -- Emerald -- Sapphire -- Ruby -- Diamond N2 - The author leads the reader on a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth. Journey from the underground opal churches of Outback Australia to the once pearl-rich rivers of Scotland; from the peridot mines on an Apache reservation in Arizona to the remote ruby mines in the mountains of northern Burma ER -