The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony [Hardco

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony [Hardcover] Sinclair, Iain\n\nThe Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony [Hardcover] Sinclair, Iain by Iain Sinclair\n\n 'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles 'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in compelling company.' 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 - and in reaction to - an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather, Arthur Sinclair. The incursions of Catholic bounty hunters and Adventist missionaries are contrasted with today's ecotourists and short-cut vision seekers. The family history of a displaced Scottish highlander fades into the brutal reality of a major land0