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Fire into Ice: Charles Fipke & the Great Diamond Hunt [Hardcover]

VERNON FROLICK (Author)
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"Unlike most business biographies, full of dry numbers and dryer writing, Fire Into Ice, is a genuine adventure novel, adroitly written and filled with dramatic tension and detail." -- Edmonton Sun --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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This is the story of Chuck Fipke, the geologist/explorer responsible for discovering new diamond fields in Canada's Arctic wastes.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars three books in one, Dec 13 2002
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al stanton (edinburgh United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fire into Ice: Charles Fipke and the Great Diamond Hunt (Paperback)
Fire Into Ice is three books in one, principally it is a stimulating insight into the mind of an exploration geologist/explorer; however, it is also an introduction to anthropology and the stresses and strains of marriage. An excellent read, but you should keep an Atlas close at hand.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Nov 21 2002
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This review is from: Fire into Ice: Charles Fipke and the Great Diamond Hunt (Paperback)
I live in Chucks hometown and have met him on occassion. Having lived in the artic for many years, and worked in the stock market arena, doing private placements many times, few people know what it has really taken for this man to accomplish what he did especially in the diamond industry. No overnight success many years in the making, hard work ingenious thought. It takes a special person to do it. Call him eccentric if you will, Hats off to him, great read, as adventourous and different as the prospector himself. And NO I am not a friend of his at all, met him twice. If you have the chance to meet him personally maybe you can listen to a personal snippet of what the backbone of the Canadian mining industry is all about, borrowed cups of coffee meals on tabs in local restaurants, long nights in cold dark places, plain hard work, which sometimes doesn't get rewarded, and this time did.

Super good read, and tells it like it is.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A very well done book, Mar 1 2002
This review is from: Fire into Ice: Charles Fipke & the Great Diamond Hunt (Hardcover)
This book is an exciting story about a modern-day adventurer.
This book follows Chuck Fipke all around the world and ends up in the Arctic.
I could not put this book down.
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