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"The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country's history. California had just been occupied during the Mexican-American War and wasn't officially a U.S. territory yet when gold was discovered in 1848. Suddenly the whole world was electrified by the news and tales of men digging vast amounts of wealth out of the ground, even finding gold nuggets just lying around. Within five years, 250,000 miners dug up more than $200 million in gold--about...
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"Across The Continent with the Fifth Cavalry" by George F. Price, Captain Fifth Cavalry, U. S. A., is the history of the Fifth Cavalry of the United States Army from its organization in 1855 to 1883 when the book was published. The book is divided into two main parts: Part I is a narrative history of the Unit from 1855-83, while Part II gives a short biographical sketch of each of the unit's officers during this time period.
The Fifth Cavalry was...
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This in-depth collection unchanged since the 1940's tells of famous heroes and villains from the old west. From Tom HornThis in-depth collection unchanged since the 1940's tells of famous heroes and villains from the old west. From Tom Horn to the "Apache Kid", the stories are detailed and tell the classic stories of our past. When outlaws ruled the land and when sheriffs did their best to keep them in check, William MacLeod Raine, the classic novelist,...
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Read Owen Chase's memoir which inspired Moby-Dick and In the Heart of the Sea, the major motion picture from Ron Howard, which will be released December 2015.
Owen Chase was the first mate on the ill-fated American whaling ship Essex, which was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean in 1820. The crew spent months at sea in leaking boats and endured the blazing sun, attacks by killer whales, and lack of food. The men were...
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David Livingstone is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting new edition of his biography, Tim Jeal, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Stanley, draws on fresh sources and archival discoveries to provide the most fully rounded portrait of this complicated man-dogged by failure throughout...
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Vivre ailleurs, s'installer durablement et changer de perspectives : des récits d'écrivains contemporains sur cette expérience fantasmée et vécue, faite d'émotions et de résonances.
Pourquoi tous ces morts au beau milieu de l'Afrique coloniale ? Pourquoi cet oubli incompréhensible ? Ce silence, que rien ou si peu ne vient troubler ? Les faits, pourtant historiques, se sont déroulés au vu et au su de tous, décidés en plein cœur de l'Europe...
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Desert explorer Michael Asher investigates the most disastrous exploration mission in the history of the Sahara. In 1880, the French government ordered a surveying expedition for a railway that would bring the fabulous wealth of Timbuktu, in French Sudan, to Paris. This trek should have heralded a new era of French prosperity. Instead, it was a deadly fiasco. Under-armed in hostile territory, and foolishly employing the enemy as guides, the one hundred...
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Being an outlaw in the Old West was a dangerous, grisly business-twenty-three gunshot wounds and living to tell the tale, falling out of a moving train, decapitation due to a hanging gone wrong, life on the lam, horse thievery, illegal alcohol trade, and more. This new volume collects two long out-of-print classic works-The Dalton Brothers and Their Astounding Career of Crime (first published in 1892 featuring "numerous illustrations reproduced from...
9) Voyage archéologique et pittoresque, historique et géologique, fantaisiste et sentimental, économ
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Extrait : "Pourquoi, me dit Barbe, vous êtes-vous mis à étudier l'Ardèche d'une manière aussi exclusive que passionnée ? Le monde est bien grand et notre département bien petit. Il y a deux raisons à cela, répondis-je. La première, c'est qu'on aime naturellement le pays o l'on est né."
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre David Livingstone, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Comprender el contexto en el que se enmarca la vida de David Livingstone, en plena época victoriana del Reino Unido, caracterizada por una prosperidad que favorece los nuevos viajes y exploraciones como los que emprende el aventurero escocés
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur David Livingstone et l'exploration de l'Afrique australe en moins d'une heure!
Missionnaire et explorateur écossais, David Livingstone entame, en 1840, un périple long de 16 ans avec un triple objectif: évangéliser les populations locales, trouver de nouvelles voies commerciales pour le Royaume-Uni, et abolir l'esclavage en Afrique. Ce voyage, et les deux autres expéditions qui le suivront, le...
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An exciting collection of dangerous adventures and groundbreaking exploration, The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told compiles the works of authors from all over the world and from the very distant past to recent eras.
Popular and well-known authors such as Herman Melville, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, and Jules Verne are featured, as well as Homer's mythic tales and Iceland's mesmerizing sagas from the tenth and eleventh centuries....
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The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over?
The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps passed away in 1870. In the intervening decades, members of the corps witnessed the momentous events of the nation they helped to form-from the War of 1812 to the Civil War and the opening of the transcontinental railroad....
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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...
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