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A Guide to Treasure in Tennessee, 2nd Edition

Author : Waybill to Adventure Llc

Publisher : CreateSpace

Page : 158 pages

File Size : 30,76 MB

Release : 2012-04-01

Category : Antiques & Collectibles

ISBN : 9781475204865

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So! You are hearing alarm bells ringing in the state of Tennessee! There are some times – some, more than others – that humans show their ancestral DNA. When your brain is suddenly set on fire by a new idea, then a new plan begins to develop. Like our caveman ancestors of yore, we are suddenly experiencing a rapid heartbeat, racing blood flow, and the “fight or flight” instinct. You are pumped to dig out your hiking boots and metal detector, and head to the mountains or the beaches of Tennessee! =============== (CreateSpace store only.) Waybill To Adventure is now, in 2012, relaunching the entire Carson Enterprises line of books. And YOU are a Preferred Customer! For a $2.00 discount on your book, please use this DISCOUNT CODE. Simply copy this code in where requested: 3PXTZNYT =============== Tennessee is chock full of treasure! Whether you are an armchair enthusiast or one of the hardy Billy Goats that scamper easily over hill and dale, you will find a starting point in this book. Every city or small town... or the many ghost- and near-ghost towns... will possess countless treasures hidden by the flow of time. Yes, highly valuable, sought-after collectibles (or as some folks say, collectables "-) just waiting, anticipating your arrival. Carson - the go-to expert! Glenn Carson of H. Glenn Carson Enterprises has been the go-to expert in treasure hunting, coin collecting, and metal detecting for over 40 years. He is now what they call The Granddaddy of this genre. Leanne Carson Boyd, his daughter, with the WaybillToAdventure.com Web site, has brought Carson Enterprises books to the Internet for over 12 years. And now, this entire collection is – or soon will be – available on Amazon. All 70+ books! Carson has an extraordinary background in treasure hunting. From these books, you can glean a tremendous amount of information for unearthing treasure. You will learn about legends and actual sites, and the main characters in the unfolding drama. You will soon have working knowledge for planning your “dig,” pinpointing major clues and leads, the know-how for interviewing key local people, and the main parts of planning your treasure hunt. Get a historical foundation for your hunt. This book will lead you to tremendous online sites where you can start burrowing down to precise locations... with who to look up in local, national, and governmental resources. This will give you a historical foundation for your hunt. And there are inspiring illustrations, photos, and maps that will pump that caveman spirit! Yep, you'll meet the good, the bad, and the ugly! Explore Tennessee maps and read about mines, naval and military boats and accidents, the influence of American natives, the Spanish, the French, and the rest of the melting pot. Buried or hidden treasures abound... robbers, spies, the good, the bad, and the ugly... sometimes the REALLY ugly... race in and out of Tennessee history. We welcome you to dog-ear the pages of your book! Gold, coins, Civil War objects, mines, stashes and sunken treasures, robberies and heists, and Americana items of every description are found within these book covers. It's all here. Any thought that American history is boring will quickly leave your mind! You will probably dog-ear this “Guide To Treasure In Tennessee” book by the time you finish reading it! Start your research and your dreams about all-things Tennessee... ... Right here, at Waybill To Adventure… on Amazon!



Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee

Author : Tennessee Flora Committee

Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press

Page : 828 pages

File Size : 23,94 MB

Release : 2015-03-20

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1621901009

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The product of twenty-five years of planning, research, and writing, Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee is the most comprehensive, detailed, and up-to-date resource of its kind for the flora of the Volunteer State, home to nearly 2,900 documented taxa. Not since Augustin Gattinger’s 1901 Flora of Tennessee and a Philosophy of Botany has a work of this scope been attempted. The team of editors, authors, and contributors not only provide keys for identifying the major groups, families, genera, species, and lesser taxa known to be native or naturalized within the state—with supporting information about distribution, frequency of occurrence, conservation status, and more—but they also offer a plethora of descriptive information about the state’s physical environment and vegetation, along with a summary of its rich botanical history, dating back to the earliest Native American inhabitants. Other features of the book include a comprehensive glossary of botanical terms and an array of line drawings that illustrate the identifying characteristics of vascular plants, from leaf shape and surface features to floral morphology and fruit types. Finally, the book’s extensive keys are indexed by families, scientific names, and common names. The result is a user-friendly work that researchers, students, environmentalists, foresters, conservationists, and indeed anyone interested in Tennessee and its botanical legacy and resources will value for years to come.





50 Hikes on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau (Second Edition) (Explorer's 50 Hikes)

Author : Johnny Molloy

Publisher : The Countryman Press

Page : 376 pages

File Size : 44,87 MB

Release : 2019-11-12

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1682683958

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Walks, hikes, and backpacking trips from the Tennessee River Gorge to the Big South Fork Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, a wide tableland cut with a dizzying array of deep gorges, is a geological wonderland. It is a place to behold and savor. This updated second edition covers hikes from the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area near Kentucky to the fascinating Walls of Jericho astride the Alabama state line; from the thousand-foot gorge cut by the mighty Tennessee River down Chattanooga way to the watery beauty of Virgin Falls by Sparta. Specific emphasis is placed on the most scenic destinations and the unique places that make the plateau so special, places like the Great Stone Door, with its sandstone formations and vertical rock walls, and Cumberland Mountain State Park, with its ancient trees and evidence of ancient human history. Also included are comprehensive maps for each hike, scenic photos, and a hikes-at-a-glance table that makes choosing your desired hike a breeze.





The Secret

Author : Byron Preiss

Publisher : ibooks

Page : 1 pages

File Size : 41,31 MB

Release : 2016-10-05

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN :

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The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.



Slow Roads Tennessee

Author : Jerry Park

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 20,92 MB

Release : 2015-10-20

Category : Photography

ISBN : 9781942557333

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Book Description

The artist captures the timeless countryside of Tennessee and its people with 95 photographs (one from each county), 15 stories, and a couple of poems.



Treasures in Your Attic

Author : Joe L. Rosson

Publisher : Harper Paperbacks

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 19,57 MB

Release : 2001-04-24

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9780060198275

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Pull those old toys out from under the bed. Grab the toaster tucked in the back of the kitchen cabinet. Gather up your old china and Christmas ornaments -- just don't throw them out! In Treasures in Your Attic, Joe L. Rosson and Helaine Fendelman, professional antiques appraisers and hosts of the popular television show, aired on PBS stations across the country, explore the valuable objects found in most ordinary American homes and learn that frequently the most valuable items are the ones you've overlooked. Joe and Helaine give you an inside look at how the antiques market really works, how value is determined, how to "talk the talk," and where to go to research your "treasures." Then they take you on a room-by-room treasure hunt of an ordinary home -- and they talk prices as they examine the discarded toys in the children's room, the costume jewelry in the bedroom, the old gadgets and appliances in the kitchen, the furniture tucked into the attic, and even the concrete garden ornaments in the backyard. Finally, they'll help you figure out the best way to sell -- or buy -- antiques and collectibles at auction or on the Internet.



Tragedy at Devil's Hollow

Author : Michael Paul Henson

Publisher : The Overmountain Press

Page : 172 pages

File Size : 17,36 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781570721601

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This is the first book of Kentucky ghost stories by acclaimed author Michael Paul Henson. He tells the bewildering tale of the tragedy at Devil’s Hollow in Kentucky. Henson has added a selection of other ghost stories and unexplained phenomena. The narratives contained in this volume are relatively unknown for two principal reasons—first, no one has previously taken the time to collect and compile them; second, these are stories generally limited to certain localities and have seldom been told outside the area of occurrence. While many stories may have been transmuted through the years of telling, the essence remains the same and the fascination and intrigue provoked by these tales of wonderment has not been diminished.



The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia

Author : Philip Kolin

Publisher : Greenwood

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 10,45 MB

Release : 2004-03-30

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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Tennessee Williams is synonymous with 20th-century theatre. For nearly half a century, he wrote plays that transformed stages and amazed audiences around the world. This reference is a comprehensive guide to his life and works. Included are roughly 160 alphabetically arranged entries on topics related to Williams and his writings. Individual entries treat his works, his family members and acquaintances, places central to his writings, and such topics as music, race, religion, art, and politics. Entries cite works for further reading and are written by expert contributors, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Through roughly 160 alphabetically arranged entries, the encyclopedia identifies major figures in his life; names his characters and specifies their significance; summarizes his plays, stories, and poems; discusses his sources and publications; provides performance histories; and surveys important film adaptations. Entries are written by expert contributors and cite works for further reading, while the encyclopedia concludes with primary and secondary bibliographies.