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Matthew Gavin Frank

Matthew Gavin Frank is an American journalist and author of Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa published by Icon Books and available through Jonathan Ball Publishers

Desolate: An abandoned De Beers mine at Kleinzee in the Northern Cape (above), and a dog near an illicit diamond mining site in Namaqualand (below). Photos: Madelene Cronje and Shaun Swingler/Ground Up
CARRIER PIGEON

Of carrier pigeons and diamond smugglers

This is an extract from a new book Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa

  • Matthew Gavin Frank
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