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Searching for El Dorado, A Journey in the South American Rainforest on the Tail of the World's Largest Gold Rush

Searching for El Dorado, A Journey in the South American Rainforest on the Tail of the World's Largest Gold Rush

by Marc Herman

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2004
  • PAPER

This dramatic journalistic account of the lives and fortunes of gold miners in the forests of Guayana combines interviews with independent prospectors, Herman's own travels through the region and a hard-hitting report on international mining corporations.  (SAM109, $13.00)


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