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Feb 23, 2021 · Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers, The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour Through America’s Food, Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer, Pot Farm, and Barolo; the poetry books, The Morrow Plots, Warranty in Zulu, and Sagittarius Agitprop, and 2 chapbooks.
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Feb 23, 2021 · Msizi’s thefts are tiny given a diamond harvest that, Frank notes, can be more than 176 million carats per year. A small army of men monitor the workers, who have devised many clever ways to sneak out diamond fragments, including using catapults to “shoot hollowed-out steel bolts, packed with diamonds” into the surrounding desert.
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Feb 23, 2021 · Flight of the Diamond Smugglers tells the real-life version of the same issue—diamond mining and smuggling in South Africa. However, the intricacies of the stylized Hollywood plot of the Bond film seemed heavily complicated as I thought of the boy that author Matthew Gavin Frank meets and of the homing pigeon the barely teenaged miner keeps in his lunchbox.
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Feb 23, 2021 · The book opens with Frank interviewing Msizi, a 13-year-old diamond miner, already sickened with diamond dust in his lungs. Msizi keeps a pigeon named Bartholomew as pet and family smuggler.
Feb 23, 2021 · Soon he meets Msizi, a young diamond digger, and his pigeon, Bartholomew, who helps him steal diamonds. It’s a deadly game: pigeons are shot on sight by mine security, and Msizi knows of smugglers who have disappeared because of their crimes. For this, Msizi blames “Mr. Lester,” an evil tall-tale figure of mythic proportions.
Feb 23, 2021 · Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa by Matthew Gavin Frank has an overall rating of Positive based on 6 book reviews.
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Flight of the Diamond Smugglers is a beautifully written book that is magical yet heartbreaking. It demonstrates the horrendous truth about diamond smuggling. It is intriguing, compelling and very well written. It reveals personal tragedy intertwined with the reality of the tragedies created by greed. A worthwhile Read!
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