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Gold, December 2013
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The Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal
Simon & Schuster
December 2013
On Sale: December 3, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 1451650027
EAN: 9781451650020
Kindle: B00BSAZ5A6
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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 Matthew Hart, the award-winning author
of Diamond
In the wake of the 2008
financial crisis, the price of gold skyrocketed—in three
years more than doubling from $800 an ounce to $1900. This
massive spike drove 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 extraordinary story of how gold became
the world’s most precious commodity.
Beginning with
a page-turning dispatch from the crime-ridden 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 has become. Hart describes each boom and bust in
gold’s long story, culminating in the swift and startling
emergence of China as the world’s new gold titan. In writing
that Publishers Weekly calls “polished and fiery,”
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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