The Gold Machine

In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers

By: Iain Sinclair

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Paperback | 1 September 2022

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432 Pages

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3.1 x 12.9 x 19.7

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âFollow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.â Barry Miles

âThe Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in compelling company.â TLS

From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors.

In The Gold Machine, Iain Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by â" and in reaction to â" an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather, Arthur Sinclair. The incursions of Catholic bounty hunters and Adventist missionaries are contrasted with todayâs ecotourists and short-cut vision seekers. 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.

What might once have been portrayed as an intrepid adventure is transformed into a shocking tale of the violated rights of indigenous people, secret dealings between London finance and Peruvian government, and the collusion of the church in colonial expansion. In Sinclairâs haunting prose, no place escapes its past, and nor can we.

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