The blood stone / Jamila Gavin.
by Gavin, Jamila.
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BookPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, c2003Edition: 1st American ed.Description: 340 p. : map ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0374308462.Subject(s): Veroneo, Geronimo, fl. 1630 to 1653 -- Fiction | Diamonds -- Fiction | Voyages and travels -- Fiction | Father-son relationship -- Fiction | Extrasensory perception -- Fiction | Taj Mahal (Agra, India) -- Fiction | Venice (Italy) -- History -- Fiction | India -- History -- Fiction | Italy -- History -- 1559-1789 -- Fiction | Historical fictionDDC classification: [Fic] Summary: In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal.
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In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal.
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