FISH, Robert L. - Rough Diamond : The Incredible Story of Barney Barnato - (Excellent Hardcover)

Book and wrapper still in a great condition .  >>>    Young Barney Barnato had nothing to lose when he abandoned his squalid existance in London's East End and set out for South Africa's Kimberley diamond fields to join his brother. As they began to build an empire, the likeable, quick-witted Barney made some influential friends...........and some dangerous enemies, including Cecil Rhodes, who scorned the pauper turned tycoon and tried at every turn to destroy him. The tale of Barney's struggle from unbearable poverty to unimagined riches, makes a riveting novel that blends history with fiction in the halcyon days of nineteenth-century empire building.