The Black Golconda: The Romance of Petroleum

"The Black Golconda; The Romance of Petroleum" offers a comprehensive and dramatic look at the rise of the international oil industry during the early twentieth century. Isaac Frederick Marcosson provides a journalistic account of the discovery and exploitation of "black gold," detailing the high-stakes competition between global powers and massive corporations. From the early American gushers to the burgeoning oil fields of the Middle East and the Caucasus, the work traces the rapid evolut...