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- catalog abstract ""The search for 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12693870.
- catalog coverage "Amazon River Region Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "El Dorado.".
- catalog coverage "Guyana Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Venezuela Description and travel.".
- catalog created "2003, c2002.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003, c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003, c2002.".
- catalog description ""The search for 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-250).".
- catalog extent "253 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Searching for El Dorado.".
- catalog identifier "0385502524".
- catalog isFormatOf "Searching for El Dorado.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003, c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,".
- catalog relation "Searching for El Dorado.".
- catalog spatial "Amazon River Region Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Amazon River Region.".
- catalog spatial "El Dorado.".
- catalog spatial "Guyana Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Venezuela Description and travel.".
- catalog subject "918.8104/32 21".
- catalog subject "Adventure and adventurers Amazon River Region.".
- catalog subject "F2373 .H47 2003".
- catalog subject "Gold mines and mining Amazon River Region.".
- catalog subject "Herman, Marc, 1969-".
- catalog subject "Rain forests Amazon River Region.".
- catalog title "Searching for El Dorado : a journey into the South American rain forest on the tail of the world's largest gold rush / Marc Herman.".
- catalog type "text".