GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! – The Johannesburg Gold Rush by Eric Rosenthal
R180,00
Secondhand Hardcover in Good Condition. Without Dust Cover.
Small stain on first 2 pages
A small strip of veldt in southern Africa has produced more than half the world’s gold reserve. It is known as the Rand, and around it has grown the great city of Johannesburg. Here, in a totally compelling narrative, is the full story of that gold-fabled land that has decided the fate of monarchs and presidents and dictated the monetary structure of the twentieth century. The frontier community of the Transvaal in the 1850s seemed an unlikely place for international sensation. From the notebooks of a German traveler comes this description of its inhabitants.
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Secondhand Hardcover in Good Condition. Without Dust Cover.
Small stain on first 2 pages
A small strip of veldt in southern Africa has produced more than half the world’s gold reserve. It is known as the Rand, and around it has grown the great city of Johannesburg. Here, in a totally compelling narrative, is the full story of that gold-fabled land that has decided the fate of monarchs and presidents and dictated the monetary structure of the twentieth century. The frontier community of the Transvaal in the 1850s seemed an unlikely place for international sensation. From the notebooks of a German traveler comes this description of its inhabitants.
