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 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 464 pages
Edition: 1 ED
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated
ISBN: 0716740265
Release Date: Jan 8, 2001
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
The amazing story of how in 1996 one ragtag team of prospectors, led by Chuck Fipke and Stew Blusson, risked life and limb to find the biggest diamond mine in North America. Welcome to the most remote, lifeless, dangerous landscape in North America, the Barren Lands: swarming biting insects, freezing bitter cold, grizzlies, and a lifeless landscape where nothing grows but lichen. In fact one person does NOT come back alive. In the tradition of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, Barren Lands is the extraordinary tale of two small-time prospectors who risked their lives to discover $17 billion worth of diamonds in the desolate tundra of the far north. In the late 1970's, two men set out on a twenty-year search for a North American gem mine, along a fabled path that had defied 16th-century explorers, Wild West prospectors, and modern geologists. They are an unlikely pair: Chuck Fipke, a ragged, stuttering fellow with a singular talent for finding sand-sized mineral grains, and Stew Blusson, an ultra-tough geologist and helicopter pilot. Inventive, eccentric and ruthless, they follow a trail of geologic clues left by predecessors all the way from backwoods Arkansas up the glaciated high Rockies into the vast and haunted "barren lands" of northern Canada.
With a South African geochemist's "secret weapon," Fipke and Blusson outwit rivals, including the immense De Beers cartel, and make one of the world's greatest diamond discoveries--setting off a stampede unseen since the Klondike gold rush. A story of obsession and scientific intrigue, Barren Lands is also an elegy to one of earth's last great wild places, a starkly beautiful and mysterious land strewn with pure lakes and alive with wolves and caribou. An endless variety of primeval glacial rock formations hide copper, zinc, and gold, in addition to diamonds.
Now that the barrens are "open for business," what will happen to this great wilderness region? Barren Lands is an unforgettable journey for those who, in the words of a nineteenth-century trapper, "want to see that country before it is all gone."
| | | | From The Publisher
In the tradition of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, Barren Lands is the extraordinary tale of two small-time prospectors who risked their lives to discover $17 billion worth of diamonds in the desolate tundra of the far north.
In the late 1970's, two men set out on a twenty-year search for a North American gem mine, along a fabled path that had defied 16th-century explorers, Wild West prospectors, and modern geologists. They are an unlikely pair: Chuck Fipke, a ragged, stuttering fellow with a singular talent for finding sand-sized mineral grains, and Stew Blusson, an ultra-tough geologist and helicopter pilot. Inventive, eccentric and ruthless, they follow a trail of geologic clues left by predecessors all the way from backwoods Arkansas up the glaciated high Rockies into the vast and haunted "barren lands" of northern Canada. With a South African geochemist's "secret weapon," Fipke and Blusson outwit rivals, including the immense De Beers cartel, and make one of the world's greatest diamond discoveries—setting off a stampede unseen since the Klondike gold rush.
A story of obsession and scientific intrigue, Barren Lands is also an elegy to one of earth's last great wild places, a starkly beautiful and mysterious land strewn with pure lakes and alive with wolves and caribou. An endless variety of primeval glacial rock formations hide copper, zinc, and gold, in addition to diamonds. Now that the barrens are "open for business," what will happen to this great wilderness region?
Barren Lands is an unforgettable journey for those who, in the words of a nineteenth-century trapper, "want to see that country before it is all gone."
Krajick's BARREN LANDS is a brilliant, lucid, and, in parts, sensational investigation of the never-ending quest to fulfill the reality and illusion of the diamond invention.
— Edward Jay Epstein, author of Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer and The Rise and Fall of Diamonds
This is a big, big tale, custom-made for the most robust of armchair adventurers and overgrown dreamers. Not since John McPhee has a writer made me care so much about the men who care for rocks. BARREN LANDS is bursting with life, with action played out on so many landscapes and timescales that it is breathtaking to behold
— Marc Zabludoff, former editor in chief of Discover Magazine
A spellbinding modern-day adventure yarn - legendary lost mines, brutal physical hardships, cunning corporate spies, and narrow escapes from death, all framing the human drama of a multi-billion dollar treasure hunt. Krajick's stylish prose combines the keen eye of a scientist with the flair of a best-selling novelist.
— Robert M. Hazen, author of The Diamond Makers
In BARREN LANDS, Kevin Krajick relates the extraordinary history of the Canadian diamond rush - a rush that is still going on. En route he offers an indelible cast of characters, from aboriginals to geologists, from independent prospectors to de Beers secretive experts, all bent on tapping a $17 billion treasure beneath the frozen tundra. This tale of avarice and ambition—every word of it true—has never been told so dramatically, or with such scrupulous attention to detail.
— Stefan Kanfer, author of The Last Empire: de Beers, Diamonds and the World
BARREN LANDS is a true adventure story, with secrets, spies, attempted murder, mysterious fires, plane crashes, and feats of daring and courage. It is fascinating, fast-paced, and enormously enjoyable.
— Richard A.F. Grieve, Chief Geoscientist, Natural Resources Canada
Kevin Krajick's masterful portrait conjures up adventure on the grand scale. BARREN LANDS is at once a scientific thriller, an excursion into industrial espionage and page-turning paean to obsession.
— Kathleen Burke, Smithsonian
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 2 Average Rating:
outstanding; adventure at its best
-- A reviewer, June 28, 2002
outstanding; adventure at its best
-- A reviewer, June 28, 2002
| |  | | | Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part I
Chapter 1 - Misery Point
Chapter 2 - Cap aux Diamants
Chapter 3 - The Coppermine
Chapter 4 - "A Deathly Stillness"
PART II
Chapter 5 - Golconda
Chapter 6 - The Great Hoax
Chapter 7 - Crater of Diamonds
Chapter 8 - De Beers in America
PART III
Chapter 9 - Broken Skull River
Chapter 10 - Deliverance
Chapter 11 - The Secret of the Anthill
Chapter 12 - A Nunatak
Chapter 13 - Blackwater Lake
Chapter 14 - Treeline
Chapter 15 - The Sandman
Chapter 16 - The Barren Lands
PART IV
Chapter 17 - The Great Staking Rush
Chapter 18 - The Corridor of Hope
Chapter 19 - An Esker Runs Through It
Chapter 20 - Ekati
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