Gold and Ghosts
Author : David W. De Havelland
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN :
Author : David W. De Havelland
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN :
Author : Gordon H. Chang
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2019
Category : 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 : Marion Dane Bauer
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375866191
On a bike outing to the abandoned houses by the old cement mill, Delsie and her friend Todd discover one of the houses is not empty--and a ghost dog haunts the area.
Author : John Frederick Walker
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : 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 : Havelland David De
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
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Author : Roberta Eaton Cheadle
Publisher : Tsl Publications
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781913294946
After Tom and Michelle Cleveland move into their recently built, modern townhouse, their housewarming party is disrupted when a drunken game with an Ouija board goes wrong and summonses a sinister poltergeist, Estelle, who died in 1904. Estelle makes her presence known in a series of terrifying events, culminating in her attacking Tom in his sleep with a knife. But, Estelle isn't alone. Who are the shadows lurking in the background - one in an old-fashioned slouch hat and the other, a soldier, carrying a rifle? After discovering their house has been built on the site of one of the original farms in Irene, Michelle becomes convinced that the answer to her horrifying visions lie in the past. She must unravel the stories of the three phantoms' lives, and the circumstances surrounding their untimely deaths during the Second Anglo Boer War, in order to understand how they are tied together and why they are trapped in the world of ghosts between life and death. As the reasons behind Estelle's malevolent behaviour towards Tom unfold, Michelle's marriage comes under severe pressure and both their lives are threatened.
Author : Lisa Schmid
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : 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 :
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Gold mines and mining
ISBN : 9780859051323
Author : Bernard Luthi
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2015-11-13
Category :
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?
Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 1989-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679723285
The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.