The blood stone

By Jamila Gavin

Subjects: Fathers and sons, Extrasensory perception, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Voyages and travels, Taj Mahal (Agra, India), Fathers and sons, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Diamonds, History

Description: In the early seventeenth century, young Venetian Filippo Veroneo travels from Venice to Afghanistan to rescue his imprisoned father, Geronimo, and stops in India to raise the ransom by selling his father's beautiful diamond to the ruler Shah Jehan, who later uses the stone as the model for the Taj Mahal.