Four exciting themes: Faces, Places, Spaces and Traces, provide widened scope for enquiry into goldfields history. These new ways of historical research delve into the depths of deeper leads and find hidden gold, reminiscent of the cris of the gold diggers of old 'Pay Dirt! Eureka! I have found it!'
"Raised in the 'City that Care Forgot,' and in an environment which taught less than it cared, Richard spent his formative years helping and supporting others--friends, neighbors, and an English teacher.
Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen. Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas.
Crozet, Virginia, postmistress and town gossip Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen gets help from her nosy tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, in solving the strange case of a murdered Hell's Angel and a rampant computer virus
Compost, you may not know, has displaced, in the last few years, the use of chemical fertilizer, entirely on many of the largest tea plantations in India and Ceylon, on the great ranches of South Africa, and in the large coffee plantations ...
Pay Dirt: A Panorama of American Gold-rushes
A reprint--on acidic paper, alas--of the Swallow Press edition of 1963.
Journeys through the early era of automotive history to explore the birth and development of the automobile and to examine classic cars from England, the United States, and Europe
This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) move to Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France.
This book will provide investors, board members and senior managers with key insights into: strategic issues for the resources industry; the economics of commodity prices; the political, geological, engineering, legal and financial ...
" --Stephen King "This book is not simply the great American novel; it's the great novel oflas Americas. It's the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful.