The River of Diamonds - Hardcover

Jenkins, Geoffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002217066 ISBN 13: 9780002217064

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1964

Synopsis

The River of Diamonds

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Review:

This adventure carries the reader on a rising tide of suspense as a seabed diamond-mining operation runs up against malevolent natural forces bordering on the super-natural and encounters a mysterious "collector of deserts" - Shelborne - whose mystical communication with nature and obvious mental energy seems buried on Mercury Island, a guano-covered hell-hole. John Tregard, the young narrator, stumbles but never falls in his determination to solve the enigma of the island; its strange occupant and odd pheno-mena - the "Glory Hole" and its secret, the death-dealing rattles ironically named "The Bells of St. Mary's" and the furtive smell of diamonds. Mr. Jenkins combines an imaginative flair for story-telling with scientific sense. And if the impact of the ending seeps away a bit with overly contrived coincidence, it is good Hollywood. (Kirkus Reviews)

About the Author:

Geoffrey Jenkins was born in 1920 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and educated in the old Transvaal, where he wrote his first book-a legal history-at the age of seventeen. After leaving school he worked as a sub-editor in Zimbabwe, later becoming a newspaperman in both Britain and South Africa. He combined a most successful career in journalism with a life-long interest in the sea, and his knowledge of ships and sailing has provided the background to many of his novels. His first novel, A Twist of Sand, was published in 1959 and immediately became a bestseller; it was later filmed. Eight more most successful novels followed having sold over five million copies in twenty-three different languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1964
• ISBN 10: 0002217066
• ISBN 13: 9780002217064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256