Author : H. Bedford-Jones
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN :
This is an adventure story that begins in Singapore with a chance meeting between Michael Kent, an American businessman who has recently experienced some bad fortune, and two other men. At this meeting, the idea of stealing a royal treasure is first raised and planned.
Author : Trudy Harris
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1467701297
King Balbazar's kingdom has made a mess of measuring. Curtains are too long, robes are too short, and no one knows how to solve the problem. People measure length with everything from candlesticks to sausages to spoons. Finally, King Balbazar holds a contest. Who will come up with the winning unit of measurement—and what will it be?
Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 1995-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0671505025
A two-hundred-old mystery puts Nancy in immediate peril.
Author : Jenny Stratford
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843833786
The remarkable treasure of gold and silver from England and France which Richard II had amassed by the end of his reign in 1399 is fully revealed for the first time in this richly illustrated book. The author explores the nature of the objects themselves, their provenance and later fate, and examines the crucial role the treasure played in diplomacy and in financing the Hundred Years War, especially at the time of Agincourt. --
Author : University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780924171550
This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts. Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time—jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs.
Author : Timothy Schroder
Publisher : British Museum Research Public
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2021-12
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780861592272
At center stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, a national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance and one of only a handful of treasures surviving from the Jewel House of Henry VIII. The volume sheds new light on an exquisite object that has beguiled owners and viewers for centuries.
Author : John Boswell
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9780835787628
Author : Michael Farquhar
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780140280241
From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class. Gleeful, naughty, sometimes perverted-like so many of the crowned heads themselves-A Treasury of Royal Scandals presents the best (the worst?) of royal misbehavior through the ages. From ancient Rome to Edwardian England, from the lavish rooms of Versailles to the dankest corners of the Bastille, the great royals of Europe have excelled at savage parenting, deadly rivalry, pathological lust, and meeting death with the utmost indignity-or just very bad luck.
Author : Matthew J. Glavin
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : 9781886166332
"Joseph Benton has a Bible handed down from his famous ancestor Joseph Bonaparte, the former King of Spain and older brother to Napoleon. Inside the Bible is a cipher that family legend says leads to a magnificent treasure stolen from the Spanish Royal Treasury when King Joseph fled Spain. This exciting treasure hunt blends historical facts with a terrific story and complex characters creating tension pitting environmentalist vs. developer and friend vs. friend. The story takes the reader from Lake Bonaparte to Cranberry Lake, Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake, and Lake Placid. The search leads to murder, romance and intrigue that will keep you up at night wondering to yourself...could the legend be true?" -- cover.
Author : Mark Clayton
Publisher : Trafford on Demand Pub
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781425186135
Treasure Hunt in the Arizona Desert Debut Author Reveals Secrets of Stone Maps and Royal Treasure in New Nonfiction Book VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA In his thrilling new nonfiction book, The Conclusion to the Original Peralta Stone Maps: The King's Royal Treasure (published by Trafford Publishing), debut author Mark Clayton takes readers on the treasure hunt of a lifetime as a group of committed friends set out to discover the long lost royal riches stashed somewhere in the Superstition Mountains of the Arizona Desert. Filled with never before revealed secrets and factual information that promises to electrify every reader's sense of adventure, Clayton's book brings a measure of wonder as well as closure to the mysterious Spanish legend of the King's Royal Fifth, a treasure that has been sought for more than 150 years. Let's not forget about the detailed maps and brilliant pictures first seen here within the pages of The Conclusion to the Original Peralta Stone Maps. Whether you're interested in buried treasure and let's be honest, who isn't? or just want to learn more about prospecting, deciphering ancient maps, sun symbols, Spanish Mountain monuments, Spanish trail markers or the Arizona Desert, you can't go wrong with Clayton's investigation, The Conclusion to the Original Peralta Stone Maps. Furthermore, readers will learn all about the history and culture of this fascinating area over the past 300 years with Clayton's unparalleled knowledge of the local peoples, which include the Apache, the Mexican, the Spaniards and the U.S. Calvary. Never before has such a detailed and high-impact interpretation of the Peralta stone maps and the timeless treasure to which they point been so provocative and encompassing. Follow his search for the breakthrough that could change history today, and rekindle your own dormant passion for the discovery of a lifetime in the pages of the inspiring nonfiction book The Conclusion to the Original Peralta Stone Maps.
