A Toxic Trade: Illegal Mining in Peru s Amazon insightcrime.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from insightcrime.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
New books at the Havre-Hill County Library
by Havre-Hill County Library Staff
Following are some of the newest titles at Havre-Hill County Library.
New fiction “Whereabouts” by Jhumpa Lahiri. This Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s first new novel in nearly a decade follows a year in the life of an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city. Torn between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties, she realizes she’s lost her way. Until one day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun’s vital heat, her perspective will abruptly change.
Post date:
Wed, 04/07/2021 - 9:13am
After Peruvian authorities shut down one of the country’s largest illegal gold mines, La Pampa, earlier this year, informal and illegal miners have been encroaching on new areas, like this one in southeastern part of the country. This newly opened gold field was, until recently, Amazon forest. (Photo/Jim Wyss/Miami Herald/TNS)
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the book ‘Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring’ by Miami Herald journalists Jay Weaver and Nicholas Nehamas and former Herald journalists Jim Wyss and Kyra Gurney, based on a Herald series that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It is now available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.