false 1003674 1 In the late 1970s, two men set out on what would prove to be a twenty-year quest to find a North American gem mine, along a fabled path that had defied sixteenth-century explorers, Wild West fortune seekers, and modern geologists. They are an unlikely pair: Chuck Fipke, a ragged fanatical prospector with a singular talent for finding sand-size mineral grains, and Stew Blusson, an ultra-tough geologist and helicopter pilot. Inventive, eccentric, and ruthless, they follow a trail of clues left by predecessorsand a few actual gemsall the way from backwoods Arkansas up the glaciated high Rockies into the vast and haunted barren lands of northern Canada. With a South African geochemists secret weapon, Fipke and Blusson outwit rivals, including the immense De Beers cartel, and make one of the worlds greatest diamond discoveriessetting off a stampede unseen since the Klondike gold rush. Barren Lands offers an unforgettable journey for those who, in the words of a nineteenth-century trapper, want to see that country before it is all gone. 989164 1 10 2002 Barren Lands : An Epic Search For Diamonds in the North American Artic total:8|5:3|4:4|3:1| 8 34 9 3 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Mar 26 06:40:19 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 06:50:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 09:19:37 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 08:00:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 12 13:29:21 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 13:33:25 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Sep 19 19:13:09 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 19:13:09 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 12 17:01:07 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 17:01:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Feb 07 11:47:38 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 11:47:38 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 30 17:07:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 17:07:00 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Sep 29 00:04:35 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 00:04:35 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Nov 11 14:14:42 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 11 14:14:42 -0800 2007