# Jewels: A Secret History

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- Book: [Jewels: A Secret History](https://www.bookquiver.com/victoria-finlay/jewels-a-secret-history) ([Jewels: A Secret History.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/victoria-finlay/jewels-a-secret-history.md))
- Authors: [Victoria Finlay](https://www.bookquiver.com/victoria-finlay)
- Publisher: sceptre
- ISBN: 978-13-9971-670-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2022-11-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'Glorious . . . anecdote and information accumulate with marvellous abundance and a passionate sense of the fascination of jewels' Spectator Amber is the tears of prehistoric trees. One gem links Queen Victoria and a skeleton. Cleopatra drank a pearl to win a bet. A man turned into a diamond. When we put on jewels, what are we really wearing? Victoria Finlay travels the world to tell the true stories of these miraculous oddities of nature. 'Filled with eye-catching incidents and stories . . . Finlay's evidence glitters from every page' Sunday Telegraph 'A fascinating and exhaustive travelogue' Times Literary Supplement