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 Sinclair’s haunting prose, no place escapes its past, and nor can we.
‘The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in compelling company.’ TLS
- 356 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Topic
Personal DevelopmentSubtopic
North American HistoryTable of contents
- CONTENTS
- Glints
- By the Brown River
- Something out of Something Else
- Dirty Sand
- The Silence in the Forest
- Frets
- The Map on the Downstairs Wall
- Visiting Agent
- Passage Money
- The Beast in the Jungle
- Casementâs Camera
- Guano
- Tasmania
- Hellâs Gates
- Into the Interior
- Fevers
- The Advocate
- Lima
- Breakfast
- Bones
- Soroche
- Convento de Santa Rosa de Ocopa
- La Oroya
- Tarma
- La Merced
- Furies
- San Luis de Shuaro
- Maria Genoveva Leon Perez
- Luchoâs Farm
- Cerro de la Sal
- Pampa Michi
- Bajo Marankiari
- The Waterfall
- Mules
- Mariscal CĂĄceres
- Pichanaki
- Puerto Yurinaki
- Cascades
- Pampa Whaley
- The Cage of Paper
- Melbourne
- Proxima Centauri
- Solly Mander
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
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