Author: Jane McIntosh
Publisher: Carlton Books
ISBN: 9781847322999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sunken cargo, hidden jewels, and buried gold have long been the subject of myths and real-life discoveries. "Lost Treasures" recounts the fascinating stories behind the endless quest for the world's missing fortunes. Fully illustrated and containing detailed maps, the book charts the original histories of treasures waiting to be found-continent by continent and ocean by ocean. Written by an experienced archaeologist and filled with more than 250 remarkable images of precious finds, "Lost Treasures" takes readers on a journey through time and around the globe in search of rumored riches and uncovered wealth.
Lost Treasures
Author: Jane McIntosh
Publisher: Carlton Books
ISBN: 9781847322999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sunken cargo, hidden jewels, and buried gold have long been the subject of myths and real-life discoveries. "Lost Treasures" recounts the fascinating stories behind the endless quest for the world's missing fortunes. Fully illustrated and containing detailed maps, the book charts the original histories of treasures waiting to be found-continent by continent and ocean by ocean. Written by an experienced archaeologist and filled with more than 250 remarkable images of precious finds, "Lost Treasures" takes readers on a journey through time and around the globe in search of rumored riches and uncovered wealth.
Publisher: Carlton Books
ISBN: 9781847322999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sunken cargo, hidden jewels, and buried gold have long been the subject of myths and real-life discoveries. "Lost Treasures" recounts the fascinating stories behind the endless quest for the world's missing fortunes. Fully illustrated and containing detailed maps, the book charts the original histories of treasures waiting to be found-continent by continent and ocean by ocean. Written by an experienced archaeologist and filled with more than 250 remarkable images of precious finds, "Lost Treasures" takes readers on a journey through time and around the globe in search of rumored riches and uncovered wealth.
Buried Treasures of the Ozarks
Author: W. C. Jameson
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874831061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Relates local legends from Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma about abandoned mines, hidden stashes of plunder, and lost fortunes
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874831061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Relates local legends from Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma about abandoned mines, hidden stashes of plunder, and lost fortunes
Lost Treasures of the Bible
Author: Clyde E. Fant
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802828817
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
"Lost Treasures of the Bible contains photographs and detailed descriptions of more than one hundred biblically significant archaeological objects housed in over twenty-five museums worldwide. Clyde Fant and Mitchell Reddish's selection of artifacts - many of them relatively unknown - illuminates the history, culture, and practices of the biblical world as a whole. Each entry also explains that particular object's relevance for understanding the Bible and locates the artifact not only at its museum site but also by its specific identification number, which is particularly valuable for smaller and lesser-known objects - true "lost treasures.""--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802828817
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
"Lost Treasures of the Bible contains photographs and detailed descriptions of more than one hundred biblically significant archaeological objects housed in over twenty-five museums worldwide. Clyde Fant and Mitchell Reddish's selection of artifacts - many of them relatively unknown - illuminates the history, culture, and practices of the biblical world as a whole. Each entry also explains that particular object's relevance for understanding the Bible and locates the artifact not only at its museum site but also by its specific identification number, which is particularly valuable for smaller and lesser-known objects - true "lost treasures.""--BOOK JACKET.
Lost Treasures of St. Louis
Author: Cameron Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681060477
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A kaleidoscope of bygone places, events, and items once identified with the Gateway City, Lost treasures of St. Louis captures the essence of cherished times that still resonate with St. Louisans. Celebrate dancing to Ike and Tina at the Club Imperial, Bowling for Dollars at the Arena, taking in movies at Ronnie's Drive-In, and myriad other pastimes enjoyed through the years ... Gone but not forgotten, all of the subjects featured will elicit nostalgia and reveal how the past has shaped our city"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681060477
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A kaleidoscope of bygone places, events, and items once identified with the Gateway City, Lost treasures of St. Louis captures the essence of cherished times that still resonate with St. Louisans. Celebrate dancing to Ike and Tina at the Club Imperial, Bowling for Dollars at the Arena, taking in movies at Ronnie's Drive-In, and myriad other pastimes enjoyed through the years ... Gone but not forgotten, all of the subjects featured will elicit nostalgia and reveal how the past has shaped our city"--Page 4 of cover.
Lost Treasures of American History
Author: W.C. Jameson
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 1589796322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has followed the trails of many of the lost mines and buried treasures he describes. Sample treasures include Sir Francis Drake Treasure, Benedict Arnold Treasure, Lafayette's Sunken Riches, Maryland's Lost Silver Mine, The Wandering Confederate Treasury, Lost Treasure of the Gray Ghost, Oklahoma Outlaw Cache, and Lost Spanish Gold in the Sandia Mountains.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 1589796322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has followed the trails of many of the lost mines and buried treasures he describes. Sample treasures include Sir Francis Drake Treasure, Benedict Arnold Treasure, Lafayette's Sunken Riches, Maryland's Lost Silver Mine, The Wandering Confederate Treasury, Lost Treasure of the Gray Ghost, Oklahoma Outlaw Cache, and Lost Spanish Gold in the Sandia Mountains.
Treasures Lost, Treasures Found
Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1408979268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘The most successful novelist on Planet Earth’ Washington Post
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1408979268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘The most successful novelist on Planet Earth’ Washington Post
America's Lost Treasure
Author: Tommy Thompson
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 9780871137326
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
In more than 250 photographs, drawings, and illustrations, "America's Lost Treasure" chronicles the sinking and recovery of the "Central America", the subject of "The New York Times" bestseller "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea".
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 9780871137326
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
In more than 250 photographs, drawings, and illustrations, "America's Lost Treasure" chronicles the sinking and recovery of the "Central America", the subject of "The New York Times" bestseller "Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea".
Lost Treasures of Florida's Gulf Coast
Author: L. Frank Hudson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820010267
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820010267
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Lost Treasures of Europe
Author: Henry Adams La Farge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A survey, mainly in photographs, of the great cultural monuments of Europe which were destroyed during World War II.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A survey, mainly in photographs, of the great cultural monuments of Europe which were destroyed during World War II.
Some Dreams Die
Author: George A. Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942688016
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942688016
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description