SEARCHING FOR EL DORADO: A JOURNEY INTO THE SOUTH AMERICAN RAIN FOREST ON THE TAIL OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST GOLD RUSH
Book ID/图书代码： 00500005B00530
English Summary/英文概要： The search for the lost City of Gold in the Amazon basin has inspired adventurers since the days of the Spanish conquistadors and Sir Walter Raleigh. Intrigued by the cultural, economic, and environmental fallout of a five-hundred-year gold rush, journalist Marc Herman traveled to the rainforests of Guyana, where he joined up with a rowdy crew of local gold-miners as they pursued their dreams of riches.
In an adventure-filled narrative rich with humor and empathy, Herman brings to life the group of miners. They are independent prospectors who wear all their earnings on their fingers and around their necks -- their bank accounts are oversized rings and huge gold necklaces. But yards away from the mines where these men seek their fortunes with techniques reminiscent of California’s forty-niners -- dynamite, tin pans, and wooden sluices -- there are mines run by international corporations that fail to alleviate the area’s poverty despite their tremendous technological and political power.
Searching for El Dorado is an astonishing achievement, a lively, humor-filled adventure full of colorful people and incidents wrapped around an eye-opening look at the contemporary colonialism that is enough to make you question the value of gold.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 位于亚麻逊雨林深处的黄金国度（El Dorado）可不是什么神秘的黄金之城：虽然那块土地有着数十亿美金的潜能，但其实，圭亚那只是个镀了金的乞丐国-------圭亚那是西半球上最贫穷的国家之一。
在这个充满冒险奇遇的故事中，HERMAN乘着颠簸、摇摆的货运卡车，沿着供货路一路开去；有过徒步走下泥泞的矿窑的经历，也有过登上翱翔的飞机，飞掠而过亚麻逊雨林的体验。他和一群粗俗的金矿工人打上了交道-------在这些矿工的眼里，是不是真正的男子汉，得要看你得过几次疟疾了；而且他们会把一生的积蓄全部挂在身上，也就是把积蓄换成超大尺寸的戒子和纯金项链戴在身上。HERMAN还深入到国际废矿的行动剖析了这些运动背后的商业暗流--------尽管国际废矿行动有强大的政治势力，但对于该地区的贫困现象，他们还是束手无策的。
《寻找黄金国之旅》让我们大开眼界，了解了有关黄金的绯闻故事、商业活动和神话故事并揭示了我们这个世界迷人、且自相矛盾的一个层面以及人类精神世界的隐秘一面。
“他的耳朵好极了：45页的一章，与两个唧唧喳喳、争吵不断的、由矿工转型过来的卡车司机同行，真是喜剧颠峰之作。”--------Outside
片段：那天晚上，在Nehru家厨房里搞的通管道的工作到是起了开化的作用，尽管知道水管的作用也就是引雨水从房顶下来，滴到下面水沟里的贮水池里，别无它用了。Nehru从水龙头里注满了一罐水，把米饭放到丙烷炉上煮。他的隔壁邻居Prance Wilkie下班后就过来串门了。Prance几年前就是个金矿工人，但是后来改行作伐木工了。木头可比这个更有利可图，而且还颇为安全。这一点从他的外表是显而易见的：和几个半裸上身的金矿工人待了一整天，比起他们，Prance可体面多了，他的鞋子-----脚趾头是包裹起来的，这在矿工当中是很少见的------是由厚皮制作的平底便鞋，两边还一本正经地弄了几个皮扣子。他的裤子是厚棉做的。从树林里骑车回来后，他把头发剪短了，山羊胡剃整齐了，最近还买了件新衬衣，从乔治城开卡车回来的时候还穿了一个晚上。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Marc Herman’s work has appeared in publications including Mother Jones, Spin, Harper’s, and McSweeney’s. He first earned an enthusiastic following for his coverage of the 1996 elections for Might Magazine. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
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