The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush, Paperback - Howard Blum

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. It i...

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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rush written by participants *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of co...

Reducere. The great Klondike Gold Rush began in 1896 and within two years, thousands of prospectors, speculators and people from countless walks of life desc...

Twenty-five years ago and counting, Louisa, my true, essential, always-there-for-everything friend, died. We were 22. When Anita Lahey opens her bi...

Reducere. Hunter Fitzhugh left St. Louis in 1897 dreaming of fortune and adventure, bound for the Yukon Territory, where it was rumored that nuggets of gold ...

Reducere. DescriptionJOANN ROBERTSON'S GRANDFATHER MOVED TO THE YUKON in 1897 to make his fortune. He did not succeed at that, but he did fall in love with t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pierre BertonIn 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pi...

Publisher: Outlook Words & ArtAuthor(s): David ZiebartNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 258 x 167 x 8Cover type: Paperback / so...

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Louis Le Prince invented the motion picture in 1890. The man's name was Thomas Edison. This book is the story of the birth of motion pictures, rest...

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Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that...

Reducere. Synopsis: The Bible promises the renewal of all creation--a new heaven and earth--based on the incarnation, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus ...

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I spent a total of thirty-plus years living in Alaska, everywhere from Barrow, which is way up at the very top of the state, right on the Arctic oc...

Reducere. The long car carried the men down into the depths of the Empire Gold Mine outside of Grass Valley, California. The year is 1850. These men are work...

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Keeper of the Crystals is an adventure fantasy series of stories for seven to nine year olds. It follows the adventures of Eve and Oscar as they ta...

Praised as an "unforgettable love story" by Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this is the real-life,...

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Reducere. November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5, 000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German arm...

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Forced into sex trafficking as a teenager, Debra Rush makes a daring escape, then struggles for years with post-traumatic stress. A reluctant mento...

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