Foreword Imre Pulmann (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Estonian language. Octavo 15 x 20 cm. Weight 330 gr. Wrappers, 272 pp., [7] leaves of photographs. The book is in Near Fine condition, without any visible defects, losses, remarks. Brown stain on the bottom edge of the front cover under dust jacket; internally small soft creases across bottom corners of some pages, slight occasional fingerprints; dust jacket shows some back wrapper soiling and minor fraying on spine ends. Amazing avant-garde photomontage cover design by Estonian artist Mart Port. Book came out in the series "Maailm vaekausil" (The world hanging in the balance) with the aim to give an overview about contemporary world visions and factors, which had dominated its formation and may influence the further development. Present work is a novel about one raw material - narural rubber or caoutchouc. One of the bloodiest fights, which economic history had seen was the struggle for rubber. This raw material which today has become essential and indispensable, took lives of thousands Negroes and Indians. But only a hundred years ago couldn't find its application. Caoutchouc immeasurably rises someone wealth, but others reached misery and extreme poverty. Fischer leads the reader step by step through the single stages of this rubber novel and different scenes. The green hell of Amazonia, London stock exchange, Belgian king's palace, League of Nations palace, everywhere rubber played an important role.