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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 todayβs 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 skyrocketedβin 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 worldβs most precious commodity.
Beginning with a page-turning dispatch from the crime-ridden inferno of the worldβs deepest mine, Hart pulls back to survey goldβs 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 goldβs long story, culminating in the swift and startling emergence of China as the worldβs new gold titan. In writing that Publishers Weekly calls βpolished and fiery,β 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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