01789cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000290011324500400014226400510018230000470023333600260028033700260030633800360033250001950036850000310056350801030059452006170069753400450131465300560135985600430141599900170145817580UtSlPG20260610133418.0mcr n260607r2006||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d aUtSlPG 7anl2iso639-1 4aPQ1 aVerne, Jules,d1828-190513aDe Zuidster, het land der diamanten 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2006 a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats atextbtxt2rdacontent acomputerbc2rdamedia aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanished_Diamond Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_S%C3%BCdstern_oder_Das_Land_der_Diamanten aRelease date is 2006-01-23 aProduced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ a"De Zuidster, het land der diamanten" by Jules Verne is a novel published in 1884. Set in South Africa's diamond fields, the story follows French mining engineer Victor Cyprien as he attempts to win the hand of Alice Watkins, daughter of a wealthy landowner. When his artificial diamond experiment appears successful, producing a massive 243-carat gem called The Star of the South, Victor's triumph turns to disaster as the diamond mysteriously vanishes during a celebration banquet. A desperate chase across the dangerous Veld ensues to recover the stolen treasure. (This is an automatically generated summary.) nOriginal publication data not identified aDiamond mines and mining -- South Africa -- Fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17580 c58966d58966