Gold

Blaise Cendrars

Original title: Or

Translated by Nina Rootes first published 1982 Michael Kesend Pub Ltd, 1984 paperback 128 pages

Tells the story, in fictionalized form, of how John Sutter, an ambitious and adventurous Swiss immigrant, established an agricultural empire in California only to see it threatened by the discovery of gold at his mill in 1849.

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This book in English

Nina Rootes 2 printings we hold · 1984–1996 · Michael Kesend Pub Ltd

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Gold paperback · 1996 · Marlowe & Company · 128 pages · 9781569248072
Gold Being the Marvelous History of General John Augustus Sutter paperback · 1984 · Michael Kesend Pub Ltd · 128 pages
Gold hardcover · 1984 · Michael Kesend Pub Ltd · 9780935576085
Gold paperback · 1982 · Peter Owen Ltd · 128 pages · 9780720605976

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