The River of Diamonds
by Geoffrey Jenkins
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The wind struck another hammer-blow. The whaler wheeled away stern-on, and then came up with a sickening thump forrard. One anchor cable gone!' Minnaar shouted about the roar of the wind. The other ' he never finished. the whaler sprang free as the second cable parted. She had been secured facing south-west and now she plunged back into the maelstrom. The water poured ankle deep on the bridge Killer deserts, grizzled prospectors, mass suicides, savage nomads and a vanishing U-boat patrol. I show more enjoyed it more than any other novel for ages. Daily Telegraph Top-class, fascinating, scientifically plausible a brilliant example of how to mix the mundane and the fantastic.' Observer show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 1964
- Related movies
- River of Diamonds (1990 | IMDb)
- Epigraph
- All man's pollutions doth the salt sea cleanse.... Euripides
- First words
- "East of the sea and west of the dunes."
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- Dutch, English, Finnish
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