Gold: Inside the Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal - Softcover

Matthew Hart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849839689 ISBN 13: 9781849839686

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2013

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About the Author:

Matthew Hart is a veteran writer and journalist, and author of three books including a history of diamonds, Diamond: The History of a Cold-blooded Affair. He lives in New York.

Review:

“From deep within the gold mines of South Africa and China to corporate boardrooms, from miners and thieves to body guards and gold traders, Hart (Diamond, 2001) offers a fascinating look at the geology, geopolitics, and economics of gold.” (Booklist)

“With remarkable clarity, Hart reveals our historical and economic relationship with this beguiling metal... Hart’s deceptively breezy book examines a simple mineral that the human mind has transformed into something so much more complicated.” (Publishers Weekly (starred))

“In his absorbing book Gold, Matthew Hart looks at the precious metal both as a mineral ... and as an idea that has evolved in dizzyingly strange ways through the millenniums.” (Columbus Dispatch)

“[A]n impressionistic portrait of an industry that blends history, science, colorful character sketches, and lively firsthand accounts of the author’s travels” (The Daily Beast)

“[E]ngaging and rollicking” (Forumblog.com)

"Gold does a splendid job of transporting readers from one defining moment in the history of gold to the next." (Mining.com)

"Hart’s book offers a compelling, stylish, and impressively researched portrait of the history and economics of a metal that has disrupted the world order while enriching some and ruining countless others... He is a talented storyteller." (Boston Globe)

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1849839689
• ISBN 13: 9781849839686
• Binding: Paperback