Title:
Author:
Uriarte, Maximilian, author, artist.
ISBN:
9780316448963
Summary:
"Lapis Lazuli is a rich blue semiprecious gemstone found deep in the Sar-i-sang mountains of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province. For thousands of years it has sustained the nearby mining villages, whose inhabitants lived peacefully in the mountainous landscape--until the Taliban, known in the region as the Horsemen, came to seek the riches stored deep beneath the earth. Taliban rule has turned the stone into a conflict mineral, as they steal and sell it for their own gain. At the behest of the fl
Pub Date:
2020
Call Number
741.5 URI 2020
Format
Books
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