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Castles of Gold

Author : Lyndon Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Castles of Gold written by Lyndon Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1860s, the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island was the scene of two major goldfields, attracting hopefuls from all over the world. Suddenly, where there had been the native bush and wide rivers, towns with 400 pubs and accommodation housing had appeared. Among the new arrivals were Irish miners, many of whom stayed on after the goldrushes as part of a community with its own distinctive character. This is the first academic study on the history of those Irish where they came from, who they were, how many women came and what they did, how people sustained their family connections, what they believed in the context of the history of the larger Irish diaspora. Illustrated with historical photographs, the book draws on private letters and oral histories as well as more conventional sources, and includes many individual migration and settlement stories.

Castle Gold

Author : Grace Slaughenhaupt
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557429641
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Castle Gold written by Grace Slaughenhaupt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the kingdoms of Selur everyone from peasants to royalty are required to follow the handbooks that detail their every responsibility. Even dragons have handbooks to follow. The search for Castle Gold is a quest to uncover the truth behind the handbooks.

Castles of the Samurai

Author : Jennifer Mitchelhill
Publisher : Kodansha International
ISBN 13 : 9784770029546
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Castles of the Samurai written by Jennifer Mitchelhill and published by Kodansha International. This book was released on 2003 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The castles of Japan are a product of the country's long history of civil warnd samurai rule from the Middle Ages to mid-19th century. They functionedoth as military fortresses as well as symbols of authority. Theyncorporated powerful mechanisms for warding off attackers, yet as symbolshey were possessed of immense beauty and grace.;This study is divided intoour parts: the first examines who built these castles and why, with anncisive look at Japanese history and the internecine fighting betweenamurai clans; the second part discusses the castle as a fortress - themportance of its location, its layout, stone walls and moats, towers, gates,hooting holes, and stone drops; the third part covers the beauty of theastle as a symbol, covering the intricate craftsmanship seen in structuraletail and the aesthetics of the samurai class itself; and the fourth partontains practical information on visiting castles and gleaning the most from first-hand view.

The World's Most Mysterious Castles

Author : Patricia Fanthorpe
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770702024
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The World's Most Mysterious Castles written by Patricia Fanthorpe and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-10-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Castles are among the most mysterious buildings on earth. Their grimly silent stones are signposts to a past filled with high adventure, grim tragedies, and glorious victories. Ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal phenomena are frequently reported from castles. Do strange paranormal powers lurk among their ancient ruins? The World’s Most Mysterious Castles takes you on a journey through hidden chambers and subterranean tunnels of castles all over the world. Their walls served the sinister needs of spies, traitors, and assassins. Do the spirits of attackers and defenders who died in long-forgotten sieges still linger where they fell? Screams of unbearable pain and despair were muffled within their deepest, darkest torture dungeons. Do they echo there still?

No Castles Here

Author : A.C.E. Bauer
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375890793
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book No Castles Here written by A.C.E. Bauer and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AUGIE BORETSKI KNOWS how to get by. If you're a scrawny loser in the destitute city of Camden, New Jersey, you keep your head down, avoid the drug dealers and thugs, and try your best to be invisible. Augie used to be good at that, but suddenly his life is changing. . . . First, Augie accidentally steals a strange book of fairy tales. Then his mom makes him join the Big Brothers program and the chorus. And two bullies try to beat him up every day because of it. Just when it seems like things can't get any worse, an ice storm wrecks Augie's school. The city plans to close the school, abandoning one more building to the drug addicts. But Augie has a plan. For the first time in his life, Augie Boretski is not going down without a fight.

The Last Castle

Author : Denise Kiernan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476794065
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Last Castle written by Denise Kiernan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller with an "engaging narrative and array of detail” (The Wall Street Journal), the “intimate and sweeping” (Raleigh News & Observer) untold, true story behind the Biltmore Estate—the largest, grandest private residence in North America, which has seen more than 120 years of history pass by its front door. The story of Biltmore spans World Wars, the Jazz Age, the Depression, and generations of the famous Vanderbilt family, and features a captivating cast of real-life characters including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Teddy Roosevelt, John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Orphaned at a young age, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser claimed lineage from one of New York’s best known families. She grew up in Newport and Paris, and her engagement and marriage to George Vanderbilt was one of the most watched events of Gilded Age society. But none of this prepared her to be mistress of Biltmore House. Before their marriage, the wealthy and bookish Vanderbilt had dedicated his life to creating a spectacular European-style estate on 125,000 acres of North Carolina wilderness. He summoned the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to tame the grounds, collaborated with celebrated architect Richard Morris Hunt to build a 175,000-square-foot chateau, filled it with priceless art and antiques, and erected a charming village beyond the gates. Newlywed Edith was now mistress of an estate nearly three times the size of Washington, DC and benefactress of the village and surrounding rural area. When fortunes shifted and changing times threatened her family, her home, and her community, it was up to Edith to save Biltmore—and secure the future of the region and her husband’s legacy. This is the fascinating, “soaring and gorgeous” (Karen Abbott) story of how the largest house in America flourished, faltered, and ultimately endured to this day.

Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales: South

Author : John Timbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales: South written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Castles in the Sand

Author : Michael Cameron Dempsey
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476613192
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Castles in the Sand written by Michael Cameron Dempsey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abu Dhabi--an obscure Middle Eastern principality that happens to be the richest city in the world. This book tells the story of Abu Dhabi's ambitions to transform itself from a sleepy sheikhdom into a thriving international metropolis and a hub of business and leisure. It traces Abu Dhabi's boom years from 2009 to 2011 from the perspective of a Westerner working for the Urban Planning Council, the government agency that planned and coordinated all of the massive development activity. Castles in the Sand explores the drastic changes in Abu Dhabi's built environment, where entire islands are forested with skyscrapers and billions of dollars in infrastructure are spent on a whim--while recounting the disorienting experience of an outsider encountering a society in which foreigners outnumber locals nine to one and modernity clashes head-on with centuries of embedded tradition. General readers will find a broad introduction to Abu Dhabi, and architects and planners will gain a firsthand glimpse inside an unprecedented experiment in city-building.

Castles of Steel

Author : Robert K. Massie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781856699
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Castles of Steel written by Robert K. Massie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the war in August 1914, Great Britain and Germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen: two fleets of dreadnoughts – gigantic 'castles of steel' able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles away – were ready to test their terrible power against each other. They skirmished across the globe before Germany, suffocated by an implacable naval blockade, decided to definitively strike against the British ring of steel. The result was Jutland, a titanic clash of fifty-eight dreadnoughts, each holding of a thousand men. When the German High Seas Fleet retreated, the Kaiser unleashed unrestricted U-boat warfare, which, in its indiscriminate violence, brought a reluctant America into the war: the German effort to "seize the trident" led to the fall of the German empire. Massie's portrayals of Winston Churchill, the British admirals Fisher, Jellicoe, and Beatty, and the Germans Scheer, Hipper, and Tirpitz are stunning in their veracity and artistry.

Letters from the Corrugated Castle

Author : Joan W. Blos
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439153329
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Letters from the Corrugated Castle written by Joan W. Blos and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Cousin Sallie, I begin with words I never thought to write: I am not an orphan! Thirteen-year-old Eldora has always believed that her mother died when she was very little, and for nine years she has lived with people that she calls Aunt and Uncle. The year is 1850, and all three have exchanged their quiet lives in New Bedford, Massachusetts, for new ones in San Francisco, the rapidly growing city that is the heart of the California Gold Rush. Shortly after their arrival, they receive a letter from an unknown woman who believes she is Eldora's mother. She is eager to meet her long-lost daughter, and a visit is arranged. As Eldora deals with her conflicting feelings about this news, she must also adjust to the challenges -- and dangers -- of living in a brash and growing city. She finds herself teaching English to two Mexicano children and beginning to learn Spanish, and an unlikely friendship with a boy named Luke introduces her to the hard, sometimes humorous, and often violent world of the mining camps. Every day seems to bring something different and new to consider. But can Eldora discover where -- and to whom -- she belongs? Told in letters that ring with the voice of the times, Letters from the Corrugated Castle is an intriguing adventure set in a fascinating time in California's history -- a worthy conclusion to the geographical trilogy begun with A Gathering of Days, winner of the Newbery Medal, and Brothers of the Heart.

Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Calendar of State Papers

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Calendar of State Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Expositor

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1456 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expositor written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales

Author : John Timbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Marion Armitage bequest, June 1924. Includes 4 photogravures, all present.

Proceedings of the Supreme Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle

Author : Knights of the Golden Eagle. Supreme Castle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Supreme Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle written by Knights of the Golden Eagle. Supreme Castle and published by . This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geological Bulletin

Author : New Zealand Geological Survey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geological Bulletin written by New Zealand Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: