| Description |
xiv, 432 pages : 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-407) and index. |
| Contents |
Get gold at all hazards -- Midas's wish and all the creatures of the pure chance -- Darius's bathtub and the cackling of the geese -- The symbol and the faith -- Gold, salt, and the blessed town -- The legacy of Eoba, Babba and Udd -- The great chain reaction -- The disintegrating age and the Kings' ransoms -- The sacred thirst -- The fatal poison and private money -- The Asian Necropolis and Hien Tsung's inadvertent innovation -- The great recoinage and the last of the magicians -- The true doctrine and the great evil -- The new Mistress and the cursed discovery -- The badge of honor -- The most stupendous conspiracy and the endless chain -- The Norman Conquest -- The end of the Epoch -- The transcending value -- World war eight and the thirty ounces of gold -- |
| Subject |
Gold -- Folklore.
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Gold. |
| Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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| Subject |
Gold -- History.
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History. |
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Gold -- Social aspects.
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Social aspects. |
| ISBN |
0471252107 cloth alkaline paper |
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