Searching for El Dorado: A Journey into the South American Rainforest on the Tail of the World's Largest Gold Rush [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Herman, Marc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385502524 ISBN 13: 9780385502528

Verlag: Doubleday, 2003

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Book by Herman Marc

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A journalist offers an action-packed account of his journey into the rain forests of Guyana and into the lives of local gold miners in search of a fortune, profiling these independent prospectors who search for gold in the same way as California's forty-niners and the international corporations who own the mines and fail to alleviate the region's poverty.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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or the lost City of Gold in the Amazon basin has inspired adventurers since the days of the Spanish conquistadors and Sir Walter Raleigh. Intrigued by the cultural, economic, and environmental fallout of a five-hundred-year gold rush, journalist Marc Herman traveled to the rainforests of Guyana, where he joined up with a rowdy crew of local gold-miners as they pursued their dreams of riches.

In an adventure-filled narrative rich with humor and empathy, Herman brings to life the group of miners. They are independent prospectors who wear all their earnings on their fingers and around their necks -- their bank accounts are oversized rings and huge gold necklaces. But yards away from the mines where these men seek their fortunes with techniques reminiscent of California’s forty-niners -- dynamite, tin pans, and wooden sluices -- there are mines run by international corporations that fail to alleviate the area’s poverty despite their tremendous technological and political power.<

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• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0385502524
• ISBN 13: 9780385502528
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 253