The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World

About this book

"Timely corporate history--as exciting and poignant as any good tale of derring-do against great odds by all-too-flawed giants. " - Kirkus ReviewsWith a scholar's precision and a novelist's eye, Stefan Kanfer tells the inside story of De Beers Consolidated Mines - from the nineteenth century diamond rush that transformed Johannes De Beer's humble South African farm into an exotic klondike, to the Oppenheimers' shadow empire that has achieved umatched global reach.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780374524265

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

April 30, 1995

Pages

416

Weight

23.5 oz

Subject

History