Author: David Cleary
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134911247X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
In 1979 this century's largest gold rush began in the Brazilian Amazon and has continued ever since. This book looks at the Amazon gold rush without sensationalizing it, at the politics and economics of gold in Brazil, and at the implications of the gold rush for Amazonia and its people.