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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good +. First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` Hunting the Stone of Heaven '. Leaming , a member of the GSC is thought to be Canada's premier authority on the geology of jade. LEARN more about : Institute of Earth's Crust, Angara River, Mark Sekerin, Mugford Chert, nephrite celt, Tunuyak, Sagan-cir, Okak Islands, Helena Ridge, Yalakom, and Nooksack River. 191 pages - INDEX at back - covering several parts of the globe. A few b/w maps give locales. Secrtion of colour photographs at center. Some of carved specimens. B/W photods throughout. Cond : paper wrapper is white to light green to grey. Green lettering . Colour cover photo is of Stan (??) in glaciated mountain terrain - perhaps British Columbia. Volume is tight, bright, square, and clean. No names nor marks. Fore corners slightly soft. Almost giftable ! ! Quote (p. 65) : " The Tlingit regarded jade (which they called tsu, meaning green) with respect. It is worth considering that some nephrite may have been derived from the Kobuk River in northwest Alaska. Research suggests a possible source in Tlingit territory, near the head of ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Colour and B/W Photographs (illustratore). …