Gold and Ghosts
Author | : David W. De Havelland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Gold mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David W. De Havelland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Gold mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David W. De Havelland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 615 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Gold mines and mining |
ISBN | : 9780859051323 |
Author | : Gordon H. Chang |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 1328618579 |
A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.
Author | : John Frederick Walker |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2010-01-19 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 155584913X |
“[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest.” —The Huffington Post Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker’s Ivory’s Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, and its impact on elephants. Long before gold and gemstones held allure, ivory came to be prized in every culture of the world—from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America to modern Japan—for its beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. But the beauty came at an unfathomable cost. Walker lays bare the ivory trade’s cruel connection with the slave trade and the increasing slaughter of elephants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the 1980s, elephant poaching reached levels that threatened the last great herds of the African continent, and led to a worldwide ban on the ancient international trade in tusks. But the ban has failed to stop poaching—or the emotional debate over what to do with the legitimate and growing stockpiles of ivory recovered from elephants that die of natural causes. “Ivory’s Ghost is essential reading for anyone concerned with conservation and with the tenuous future of one of the most magnificent creatures our earth has ever seen.” —George B. Schaller, author of A Naturalist and Other Beast
Author | : Lisa Schmid |
Publisher | : North Star Editions, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1631632906 |
Twelve-year-old Ollie Oxley isn’t expecting his first friend in town to be a ghost, but together they team up to save his mom’s theater and take down the school bully.
Author | : David W. De Havelland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Gold mines and mining |
ISBN | : 9780859051149 |
Author | : Richard Michelson |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780152051860 |
An older brother "reassures" his younger sister about all the creatures that she imagines lurking in the dark bedroom, but his words only scare her more.
Author | : Nancy Roberts |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2013-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611173604 |
A history of the earlier Southern gold rush and its legends that—for the first time—ties it to the well-known California gold rush of 1849. Nancy Roberts tells how it all began in North Carolina, which supplied all the domestic gold coined at the US Mint between 1804 and 1828. She tells the story of the discovery of the gold in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama and later in California and Colorado, including how the Virginia, Carolina and Georgia gold miners abandoned their mines within weeks after news arrived of the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Creek. And, for a while, they were said to be the only experienced miners in the Western gold fields. Ms. Roberts recreates with gusto and suspense the experiences of real people—the adventurers and entrepreneurs, family men and rascals, immigrants and bandits, entertainers and miners—and also includes several tales of the supernatural from the period. There was North Carolina’s flamboyant Walter George Newman, who fleeced the wolves of Wall Street; “Fool Billy,” who South Carolinians discovered was not a fool at all; a romantic specter called Scarlett O’Hara of the Dorn Mine; Georgian Green Russell, with his beard braided like a pirate, who founded Denver; “Free Jim,” the only black man in Dahlonega to own his own gold mine only to leave it for San Francisco; the Grisly Ghost of Gold Hill; a general from North Carolina who became an influential Californian; the ghost bride of Vallecito; and California’s bandit, the enigmatic Black Bart.
Author | : Bernard Luthi |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2015-11-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781500800765 |
Four friends set off in search of treasure after discovering an old map in the attic and end up finding adventure as they follow the map's path through a local haunted house. Andrew and his three best friends, Michael, Daniel, and William, live in the sleepy California town of Telane, a place where nothing interesting ever happens. Once upon a time, Telane was an exciting place-a Gold Rush boomtown. Now, the boys' families struggle to make ends meet. When Andrew and Michael find an old map in Michael's attic, the four boys embark on a treasure hunt. They're looking for fun, but they're also hopeful. What if the map is real? A long hidden stash of gold could solve all their problems. Their first stop: an abandoned mansion that's supposed to be haunted. As they venture deeper into the mansion and the mystery, they realize they're not the only ones on the hunt. They have followers-some friendly, some dangerous. Tunnels beneath the house lead them to an underground river, and soon they're more concerned with finding their way home than locating treasure. Weird noises, lights, and the sudden appearance of a mysterious guide, all point to one frightening conclusion: the mansion really is haunted! Who, or what, is really lost? The kids or the treasure? And is a heap of hidden gold really worth a bigger heap of danger?