Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession and Greed along Coastal South Africa - Softcover

Gavin Frank, Matthew

 
9781785787430: Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession and Greed along Coastal South Africa
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1785787438 ISBN 13: 9781785787430
Verlag: Icon Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

'Ghost towns, corporate cruelty, the centuries-old relationship between humans and a species almost magical in its abilities ... fabulous.' The New York Times

'Eye-opening' Geographical

'A beautifully written book on diamond smuggling, the universe, life and much of what lies in between.' Toby Muse, author of Kilo: Life and Death Inside the Secret World of the Cocaine Cartels

For nearly 80 years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed "overmined" and abandoned, journalist and author Matthew Gavin Frank set out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade - the smuggling of diamonds by carrier pigeon - that supplies a global market.

Uncovering a long overlooked truecrime story dating back to the founding of the De Beers corporation, and blending elements of reportage, memoir and legend, he weaves interviews with local diamond divers, who extract mineral wealth from the seabed by day and raise pigeons in secret by night, with harrowing anecdotes from former heads of security, environmental managers, and vigilante pigeon hunters.

A rare and remarkable portrait of exploitation and greed, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers reveals how these feathered bandits became outlaws in every mining town.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of The Mad Feast, Preparing the Ghost, Pot Farm and Barolo. His work appears widely in journals and magazines, including The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Guernica, The New Republic, Iowa Review, Salon, Conjunctions and The Normal School. He teaches creative writing and lives in Marquette, Michigan.

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Verlag
Icon Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1785787438
ISBN 13 
9781785787430
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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