Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Pearl : Nature's Perfect Gem, Hardback Book

Pearl : Nature's Perfect Gem Hardback

Hardback

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

This is a beautifully illustrated account of pearls through millennia, from fossils to contemporary jewellery.

Pearls are the most human of gems, both miraculous and familiar.

Uniquely organic in origin, they are as intimate as our bodies, created through the same process by which we grow bones and teeth.

They have long been described as an animal's sacrifice, but until recently their retrieval often entailed the sacrifices of enslaved and indentured divers and labourers.

While the shimmer of the pearl has enticed Roman noblewomen, Mughal princes, Hollywood royalty, mavericks and renegades, encoded in its surface is a history of human endeavour, abuse and aspiration - pain locked in the layers of a gleaming gem.

Information

Save 27%

£30.00

£21.75

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information