Author : Nancy Van Laan
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
A retelling of the Chibcha Indian legend about how the treasure of El Dorado came to be.
Author : John Hemming
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781842124451
The El Dorado legend of a naked ruler who covered his body in gold dust became an obsession for conquistadores and successive adventurers in search of the sacred gold of the Indians in Central and Southern America. John Hemming, author of Red Gold, tells of the cruelty of the explorers but also of the indescribable hardships they suffered. A beguiling book illustrated with images from the Gold Museum in Bogota.
Author : Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080321099X
When gold was discovered in the far northern regions of Alaska and the Yukon in the late nineteenth century, thousands of individuals headed north to strike it rich. This massive movement required a vast network of supplies and services and brought even more people north to manage and fulfill those needs. In this volume, archaeologists, historians, and ethnologists discuss their interlinking studies of the towns, trails, and mining districts that figured in the northern gold rushes, including the first sustained account of the archaeology of twentieth-century gold mining sites in Alaska or the Yukon. The authors explore various parts of this extensive settlement and supply system: coastal towns that funneled goods inland from ships; the famous Chilkoot Trail, over which tens of thousands of gold-seekers trod; a host of retail-oriented sites that supported prospectors and transferred goods through the system; and actual camps on the creeks where gold was extracted from the ground. Discussing individual cases in terms of settlement patterns and archaeological assemblages, the essays shed light on issues of interest to students of gender, transience, and site abandonment behavior. Further commentary places the archaeology of the Far North within the larger context of early twentieth-century industrialized European American society.
Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1541672534
"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.
Author : Silvia González Guirado
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788415149286
Recommended Age: From 12 to 99 years old. A journey to imagination to believe in reality once again. Discover the illustrated novel that has bring inspiration back to youth and adults. There are times in life when sadness takes over, our smile vanishes and melancholy turns our face pale and, somehow, our looks are overcome by a dark gray cloud. Carmesina, the girl who woke up to the forgotten colours, is now a little older if also somewhat less eager, and fading a little. Why so? What can she do pluck up courage and pick up the paintbrushes again? More importantly, what can she do to live a full life? Someone's watching her -and all of us- and is about to visit her and invite her along to the realm of tales and imagination. Ready for the journey? Inspiration dormant: forgotten colours revisited, is an illustrated novel that picks up where The Forgotten Colours left off. If you read the latter, you'll enjoy meeting some of the characters again and getting to know them better. On the other hand, if this is your first journey into the realm of tales and imagination, do not worry, just let yourself be taken by this universal story in search of inspiration, in order to dream, to imagine and, in one word, to live. A part of the benefits obtained from the sale of this book will go to the NGO Children of India. ● Web oficial del llibre: http://lainspiracioadormida.com ● Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forgottencolors ● Twitter: @carmesina
Author : Marc Aronson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780395848272
Recounts the adventurous life of Ralegh the English explorer who led many expeditions to the new world.
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Page : 680 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 1922
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Page : 856 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 1899
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 1856
Category : American literature
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
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