Daughter of railroad tycoon E.B. Crocker Aimée Crocker led a most dazzling life in San Francisco and Tokyo during the Gilded Age, New York at the turn of the century, and Paris during the Belle Epoque and the American expatriate invasion. She traveled extensively in the Far East, in Hong Kong and Singapore, Java and India, not to mention the interior of Borneo among headhunters. A thrill ride studded with diamonds.