Gold - Matthew Hart
the race for the world's most seductive metal
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"From the lost empires of the Sahara to today's 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 skyrocketed--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 world's most precious commodity. Beginning with a page-turning dispatch from the crime-ridden, dangerous inferno of the world's deepest mine, Hart pulls back to survey gold's 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 ha...
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Simon & Schuster: New York, 2013. Bound in boards with dustwrapper, 290 pp. 4th printing. Notes. 15x23x2,6 cm. In very good condition,. [Categorie: Geld] [Auteur: Hart, Matthew.] [Pagina's: 290] [Jaar: 2013] [Titel: Gold: The race for the world's most seductive metal.]
