The Gold Machine : Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony by Iain Sinclair

AA?New StatesmanA?Book of the Year, 2021?_~Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.?_T Barry MilesFrom 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?_Ts haunting prose, no place escapes its past, and nor can we. ?_~The Gold MachineA?is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in compelling company.?_TA?TLS
Binding: Hardback