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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 · Matthew Gavin Frank's Flight of the Diamond Smugglers, set on South Africa's Diamond Coast in the northwest part of the country, is one example. In crisp and poetic prose, Frank exposes the ...
Blending elements of reportage, memoir, and incantation, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers is a rare and remarkable portrait of exploitation and greed in one of the most dangerous areas of coastal South Africa. With his sovereign prose and insatiable curiosity, Matthew Gavin Frank “reminds us that the world is a place of wonder if only we look” (Toby Muse).
Feb 23, 2021 · Along the Diamond Coast, he met Msizi, a young man who works belowground to harvest diamonds—and who smuggles in a pigeon to whose legs he ties tiny bits of the precious stone in an act of “quiet—but punishable—piracy.” Msizi’s thefts are tiny given a diamond harvest that, Frank notes, can be more than 176 million carats per year.
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Feb 23, 2021 · Blending elements of reportage, memoir, and incantation, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers is a rare and remarkable portrait of exploitation and greed in one of the most dangerous areas of coastal South Africa.
NPR • Best Books of 2021 “Unforgettable. . . . An outstanding adventure in its lyrical, utterly compelling, and heartbreaking investigations of the world of diamond smuggling.” —Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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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