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The blood stone
- Title
- The blood stone / Jamila Gavin.
- Author
- Gavin, Jamila.
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, c2003.
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- Description
- 340 p. : ill., map; 22 cm.
- Summary
- In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal.
- Subjects
- Veroneo, Geronimo, fl. 1630 to 1653 > Fiction
- Venice (Italy) > History > 1508-1797 > Fiction
- Extrasensory perception > Fiction
- Taj Mahal (Agra, India) > Fiction
- Voyages and travels > Fiction
- Italy > History > 1559-1789 > Fiction
- Diamonds > Fiction
- Fathers and sons > Fiction
- India > History > 1526-1765 > Fiction
- ISBN
- 0374308462
- LCCN
- 2004053257
- 9780374308469
- OCLC
- 56057900
- Author
- Gavin, Jamila.
- Title
- The blood stone / Jamila Gavin.
- Imprint
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, c2003.
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- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780374308469
- Branch Call Number
- J FIC G