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The Gold Machine : Tracking the Ancestors From Highlands to Coffee Colony 🔍
Iain Sinclair Oneworld Publications, Simon & Schuster, London, 2021
English [en] · EPUB · 7.2MB · 2021 · 📕 Book (fiction) · 🚀/lgli/zlib · Save
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'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in compelling company.' TLSFrom the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors.In 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....
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lgli/Iain Sinclair - The Gold Machine (retail) (epub).epub
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The gold machine : in the tracks of the mule dancers
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Sinclair, Iain
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Rock the Boat
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Point Blank
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United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
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London, England, 2021
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New York, 2021
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PS, 2021
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5, 2021
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"From the award-wining author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors. In 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. A 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"--Jacket flap
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A journey through time and space, grappling with the ghosts of empire
A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021
Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable. Barry Miles
From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory , a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors.
Iain Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by and in reaction to an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather. 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.
In Sinclairs haunting prose, no place escapes its past, and nor can we.
The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in compelling company. TLS
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2022-02-04
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