Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic

Author:
Kevin Krajick
Publisher:
Times Books
Reviewed in:
Fall 2001
Category:

Author Kevin Krajick relates the 20-year tale of two fanatic geologists who set out in the late 1970s to find the chimera of 16th-century explorers, Wild-West prospectors and the top modern scientific minds of the De Beers cartel: the great North American diamond mine.