Gold Fever - One Man''s Adventures on the Trail of the Modern Gold Rush

Zusatztext "Steve Boggan takes the reader on an exciting adventure and proves that prospecting is as much about digging for humor and hope as it is finding gold." Informationen zum Autor Steve Boggan has been a news, features and investigative journalist for more than thirty years. A former Chief Reporter with the Independent, he has also written extensively for The Times, the Guardian, the London Evening Standard and the Daily Mail. His first book, Follow the Money: A Month in the Life of a Ten-Dollar Bill, was published in 2012. He lives in London. Klappentext Have you ever imagined giving up your day job and heading for the hills in search of gold? Journalist Steve Boggan decided to do just that when the price of the precious metal scaled dizzying heights in the wake of the global financial crisis. Clueless, and with neither equipment nor experience, Boggan flew to California and followed in the footsteps of the '49ers', miners who fuelled the original Gold Rush of 1849. Along the way, terrified of bears, bubonic plague and rattlesnakes, he met a cast of colourful characters, including a former Navy Seal who risked his life every day and a man who once went on the run for five years in the mistaken belief that he was wanted by the law.  In charming and witty prose, gold-fevered Boggan recaptures the excitement, the hopes and disappointments of the hunt, going beyond the story of modern prospectors to give a moving insight into the birth of modern America. Zusammenfassung Acclaimed journalist Steve Boggan goes in search of precious metal

Product details

• Authors: Steve Boggan, Boggan Steve
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781780748603
• ISBN: 978-1-78074-860-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, California, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mining, TRAVEL / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA), Travel writing, Mining technology & engineering, Mining technology and engineering