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Tears of mermaids : the secret story of pearls / Stephen G. Bloom.

"Stephen G. Bloom is a writer who fully understands the allure of pearls and their ability to mesmerize. For Tears of Mermaids, Bloom traveled thirty thousand miles in an effort to trace a single pearl - from the moment a diver off the coast of Australia scoops from the ocean floor an oyster co...

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Main Author: Bloom, Stephen G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, ©2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Pearl industry and trade.
Cultured pearls.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: from diver's hand to woman's bosom
  • In the beginning
  • A pearl primer : some of what you need to know
  • Entranced
  • Into the mix
  • The Rana of Fresno
  • Pearl City
  • Hong Kong : dealers' paradise
  • The traders
  • Across the Chinese border to the transformation
  • Faye's world
  • Tammy and a (sort of) Barbar Bush sighting of the Hongqiao pearl market
  • Miss Pearl
  • The way of the Internet : a trek from the neighborhood jewelry store to the rural Chinese villages of Haian and Xuwen
  • To the source
  • Karaoke-krazy
  • A dog in my crotch
  • On JB's farm
  • Sold!
  • French Polynesia : the pearl that got away
  • Snakes & crocs
  • Australia's first family of pearls
  • Fight for pearl supremacy : the strange case of the Otto Gerdau Co.
  • Life as a deckhand
  • On board
  • At sea-- The show
  • The comer
  • The payoff
  • Where it all began
  • The dogs of Cubagua
  • El Senor Sixto fo Cubagua
  • Nicholas El Gato's legacy.

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