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Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: NN.ENW Frol Fipke FS.E / College 6x - Magazin: bitte wenden Sie sich an die Infotheke	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

Vernon Frolick, a criminal prosecutor in British Columbia, tackles the biography of Chuck Fipke, the man who proved that there were commercial diamonds in Canada.Fipke is a driven man. Working in unbelievably remote areas of New Guinea, Africa, Brazil, and the Canadian Arctic, he has survived encounters with everything from intestinal parasites to lions. He once had to barter his clothes in order to escape from a war party of Stone Age warriors (a primitive tribe in New Guinea who still use Stone Age technology), and he is the only person known to have recovered from cerebral malaria. He is also an extraordinarily successful exploration geologist, which has cost him his marriage but makes for an exciting story... (quill & quire ; Reviewed by John Wilson (from the March 1999 issue)