![]() Buried Treasure published in the United States as Jewels: A Secret History.Colour: Travels Through The Paint Box published in North America as Color: A Natural History of the Palette. ![]() įinlay has also worked in radio presenting, and was the director of communications for the Alliance of Religions and Conservation. In 2000, she decided it was time to go and find out this and other secrets of colour, and Colour: Travels through the Paintbox was published in 2002. By the time of the handover in 1997, she was arts editor of the South China Morning Post.įinlay had become obsessed with colour as a child, when her father took her to Chartres Cathedral and said that people were no longer able to make the blue in the stained glass. The Royal Collection Trust simply says the Lahore Diamond 'was presented to Queen Victoria in 1851. From 1991 to 2003 Finlay worked in Hong Kong as a journalist. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Gems seem to be moving to the literary forefront, with The Hope Diamond out in May and The. The Crown Jewels include the Koh-i-Nur and Cullinan diamonds and Black Princes Ruby, which came from former British colonies India and South Africa. Career įinlay studied social anthropology at St Andrew's University, Scotland, and the College of William & Mary, Virginia, after which she joined Reuters. ![]() Her most famous book is Colour: Travels Through The Paint Box. Victoria Finlay is a British writer and journalist, known for her books on colour and jewels. ![]()
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