Publisher's Synopsis
What happens when an African boy, who has escaped a civil war in Sierra Leone and who is employed as a geologist by a South African diamond mining company, meets a Canadian Inuit girl, trained as an environmentalist and employed by the Federal Government? And what if they meet as adversaries, in the Northwest Territories of Canada at one of the richest mining discoveries in world history? And what if they fall in love? Bloody Diamonds follows the young life of Sam Kambo and Sarah Akana from childhood to adulthood during a period in history when a cruel civil war was taking place in Sierra Leone, financed by blood diamonds and the discovery of diamond gemstones in the barren and hostile Canadian north. Can the love of two people with vastly different cultures and career paths survive? McCavour takes the pulse of the Canadian North and deals with many local issues including environmental and cultural genocide, aboriginal rights, substance abuse, crime, suicide, and the effect of global warming on ice roads, tree lines, permafrost and year round access to the Arctic. The lives of Sam Kambo and Sarah Akana will serve as role models for all North and South American natives.
