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The gold machine : in the tracks of the mule dancers / Iain Sinclair.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sinclair, Iain, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sinclair, Iain, 1943---Travel--Peru.
- Sinclair, Iain.
- Sinclair, Iain, 1943---Family.
- Sinclair, Iain, 1943-.
- International relations.
- Families.
- Travel.
- Peru--History--1829-1919.
- Peru.
- History.
- Peru--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--Peru.
- Great Britain.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Oneworld Publications, 2021.
- Summary:
- From the award-wining author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors.0In The Gold Machine, Iain Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by - and in reaction to - an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather, Arthur Sinclair. The incursions of Catholic bounty hunters and Adventist missionaries are contrasted with today's ecotourists and short-cut vision seekers. The family history of a displaced Scottish highlander fades into the brutal reality of a major land grab. The historic thirst for gold and the establishment of sprawling coffee plantations leave terrible wounds on virgin territory.0A Boys' Own Adventure story is transformed into a shocking tale of the violated rights of indigenous people, secret dealings between London finance and Peruvian government, and the collusion of the church in colonial expansion. A beautiful valley is now the property of a British corporation. In Sinclair's haunting prose, no place escapes its past, and nor can we.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: GLINTS
- By the Brown River
- Something out of Something Else
- Dirty Sand
- The Silence in the Forest
- FRETS
- The Map on the Downstairs Wall
- Visiting Agent
- Passage Money
- The Beast in the Jungle
- Casement's Camera
- Guano
- Tasmania
- Hell's Gates
- Into the Interior
- FEVERS
- The Advocate
- Lima
- Breakfast
- Bones
- Soroche
- Convento de Santa Rosa de Ocopa
- La Oroya
- Tarma
- La Merced
- FURIES
- San Luis de Shuaro
- Maria Genoveva Leon Perez
- Lucho's Farm
- Cerro de la Sal
- Pampa Michi
- Bajo Marankiari
- The Waterfall
- Mules
- Mariscal Caceres
- Pichanaki
- Puerto Yurinaki
- Cascades
- Pampa Whaley
- The Cage of Paper
- Melbourne
- PROXIMA CENTAURI
- Solly Mander.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1786079194
- 9781786079190
- OCLC:
- 1236259775
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