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From the lost empires of the Sahara to todayâÈçs frenzied global gold rush, a blazing exploration of the human love affair with gold by the award-winning author of Diamond.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the price of gold has skyrocketedâÈ'in three years more than doubling from $800 an ounce to $1900. This massive spike kicked off an unprecedented global gold-mining and exploration boom, much bigger than the Gold Rush of the 1800s. In Gold, acclaimed author Matthew Hart takes you on an unforgettable journey around the world and through history to tell the incredible story of how gold became the worldâÈçs most precious commodity.
Beginning with a page-turning dispatch from the crime-ridden, dangerous inferno of the worldâÈçs deepest mine, Hart pulls back to survey goldâÈçs tempestuous past. From the earliest civilizations, 6,000 years ago, when gold was an icon of sacred and kingly power, Hart tracks its evolution, through conquest, murder, and international mayhem, into the speculative casino-chip that the metal has become. On this spellbinding journey the reader will witness the Spanish plunder of the New World, a century of pillage that crushed the glittering Inca empire of the Andes and transferred its staggering wealth to Europe. Hart describes each boom and bust in goldâÈçs long story, each panic and shock, with a masterful storytelling hand, leading the reader to the present dayâÈ'to the London vaults that hold the multi-ton hoards of such shadowy investors as the American gold fund called âÈêthe Spider,âÈë to the amazing gold-rich bamboo forests of eastern Senegal, and to the piratical carnival of theft that enlivens the worldâÈçs greatest gold-producing engine: China.
With writing described as âÈêpolished and fieryâÈë (Publishers Weekly), Hart weaves together history and cutthroat economics to reveal the human dramas that have driven our lust for a precious yellow metal.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the price of gold has skyrocketedâÈ'in three years more than doubling from $800 an ounce to $1900. This massive spike kicked off an unprecedented global gold-mining and exploration boom, much bigger than the Gold Rush of the 1800s. In Gold, acclaimed author Matthew Hart takes you on an unforgettable journey around the world and through history to tell the incredible story of how gold became the worldâÈçs most precious commodity.
Beginning with a page-turning dispatch from the crime-ridden, dangerous inferno of the worldâÈçs deepest mine, Hart pulls back to survey goldâÈçs tempestuous past. From the earliest civilizations, 6,000 years ago, when gold was an icon of sacred and kingly power, Hart tracks its evolution, through conquest, murder, and international mayhem, into the speculative casino-chip that the metal has become. On this spellbinding journey the reader will witness the Spanish plunder of the New World, a century of pillage that crushed the glittering Inca empire of the Andes and transferred its staggering wealth to Europe. Hart describes each boom and bust in goldâÈçs long story, each panic and shock, with a masterful storytelling hand, leading the reader to the present dayâÈ'to the London vaults that hold the multi-ton hoards of such shadowy investors as the American gold fund called âÈêthe Spider,âÈë to the amazing gold-rich bamboo forests of eastern Senegal, and to the piratical carnival of theft that enlivens the worldâÈçs greatest gold-producing engine: China.
With writing described as âÈêpolished and fieryâÈë (Publishers Weekly), Hart weaves together history and cutthroat economics to reveal the human dramas that have driven our lust for a precious yellow metal.
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- Title Gold
- Author Hart, Matthew
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 290
- Language EN
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, NY
- Date 2013-12-03
- ISBN 9781451650020
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