Jewels: A Secret History - Finlay, Victoria
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When we put on jewels, what are we really wearing? In this scintillating book, Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most.

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When we put on jewels, what are we really wearing? In this scintillating book, Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most.
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Victoria Finlay worked as a journalist in Hong Kong for eleven years, five of which were spent as arts editor for the South China Morning Post. Colour was her first book; since then she has also written Jewels: A Secret History, A Brilliant History of Color in Art, and Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World. She studied social anthropology and as well as travelling around the world in search of stories about her subjects, from pigments to jewels to art to fabric, has also worked for an international environment charity. She lives near Bath.