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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Just off the coast of Northern California, our Deep Sea Detectives dive into a cove near Mendocino, a rocky inlet called "The Washing Machine" for its turbulent currents. There they find the wreckage of The Frolic, a clipper that smuggled opium into China during the 1840s. Who built and owned it? How did remnants of its cargo, Chinese ceramics, turn up in 1984 in a Native American village in the Redwood Forest? How could there be no historical record...
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A journey through our largest and least populous state, Alaska. Home of more than 60% of America's national parkland - some 54 million acres. Here the wilderness and wildlife are unspoiled by modern man, from Glacier Bay's massive fjords, and Mount McKinley's snow-capped summit, to brown bears feasting on salmon. The past is now preserved at historic Klondike Gold Rush, and Eskimo people who still hunt and fish the rugged, beautiful land. Ranging...
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
At the end of 1853, San Francisco was a city on the move. It had twelve daily newspapers, nine insurance companies, consulates of twenty-seven foreign governments, and six-story buildings where sand dunes once stood. A few years earlier, San Francisco was just a sleepy little town. But the sight of gold in the rushing waters of the American River sent a ripple around the world and set the stage for an event that would forever change a city, a fledgling...
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