| #15489766 in Books | 2000 | Format: Import | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.76 x5.12 x.0l,.42 | File Name: 0006552153 | 272 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting and enjoyable travelogue of India|By Tim F. Martin|_Chasing the Mountain of Light_ by Kevin Rushby is an interesting and sometimes humorous travelogue about India, ostensibly about the author's efforts to track the origins and history of the Koh-i-Noor or Mountain of Light, one of the most famous diamonds in the world, from its origins in the mines of Golconda in s|.com |A shiny piece of carbon is what ensnares writer Kevin Rushby, luring him into a strange world of hidden towns with no names, a land of charms, chakras, cardamom, and missing gem mines. But it's not just any chunk of glittering jewel with which Rushby is
In the beginning diamonds came from India. And the greatest of those ancient stones, the Koh-i-Noor, the Mountain of Light, cut a deep and bloody path across its history and legends. Fought over, cursed and occasionally lost, taken from the mines of Golconda in the south to the Mughal palaces of Agra and Delhi in the north, it finally reached the Sikhs in the Punjab, only to be seized by British agents eager to please the young Queen Victoria. It now lies in the Tower o...
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You easily download any file type for your gadget.Chasing the Mountain of Light | Kevin Rushby. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
