Kino, a poor Mexican pearl-diver, believes he has received the answer to his prayers when he finds a great pearl worth a fortune, but it is not long before tragedy follows.
Kino, a poor Mexican pearl-diver, believes he has received the answer to his prayers when he finds a great pearl worth a fortune, but tragedy soon follows.
Young widow Hannah McGarry calls upon Archer Donovan for help when her husband, with whom Donovan was once a partner in a pearl farm business, dies leaving her to face the prospect of bankruptcy and the mystery of a missing three-million dollar fortune in black pearls.
a popular account of their characters, occurrence, and applications, with an introduction to their determination, for mineralogists, lapidaries, jewellers, etc. : with an appendix on pearls and coral