Digging For Treasure
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Digging For Treasure
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Author : Ron Dale
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-09-11
Digging For Treasure written by Ron Dale and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-11 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Digging for Treasure could possibly have been titled Memoirs of a Dump Digger, as although it is a practical book packed with know-how gained by the author over a number of years, all the information passed on through the book is from the authors own real-life experiences. Digging into Victorian and Edwardian rubbish dumps may seem a crazy way to earn a living, but many thousands of people in Britain alone have been involved in such a hobby part-time since the 1970s. It all started in the U.S.A. in the 1950s when old frontier towns were searched for their throwaway bottles. The patent quack medicine bottles of the 19th century proved a fascinating subject of research. Dump- digging soon spread to Canada and the U.K. and is also particularly strong in Australia. The finds in old refuse are not just bottles. In a century when local chemists made their own toothpaste in the back of the shop, it was sold in small ceramic pots with lids which had printed advertising on them under the glaze. Chemists could design their own advertising lids and the individuality and naivety of these is part of their charm. This was a time before the invention of the squeezable tube which we use today for toothpaste, creams and ointments. Ointments claiming to cure a wide variety of illnesses were sold in these pots, something which is illegal today. Ointments can alleviate or soothe problems, but they cannot claim to cure! In Digging for Treasure the author points out that once a dump has been emptied of its finds by hordes of collector-diggers, they have to constantly be searching for other sites. This has become a problem today as gradually more and more old rubbish dumps disappear under the building of trading estates, car parks and housing estates. Whilst this is admittedly true, the author believes there are still some town dumps yet to be found, although fast disappearing. Also he advocates the re-digging of sites which were inefficiently dug by zealous collectors the first time around. Victorian refuse dumps yield a wide variety of glass bottles, printed stoneware and ceramic pots and advertising lids, clay pipes with decorated bowls, china dolls heads, brown salt-glazed stoneware bottles and jars. Some of the rarer bottles and pot-lids are now selling for several hundreds of pounds and the very rare up to 5,000. As sites become even more difficult to find, this trend for higher prices must continue. The author points the way to the future in what he describes as the forgotten dumps. In the book he describes the research he has done on the collection of refuse in the U.K. which is a subject most of us pay scant attention to. Many would believe that there has always been a collection of our waste, but this is not so. In many towns and villages, the collection of household waste was not organised until after 1900. The smaller the village, the later was collection introduced. Although in London and a few other large cities, refuse collection began from about the 1880s, some small villages did not have this facility until about 1920. As town dumps gradually disappear under buildings, the author points the way forward for dump-diggers of the future what he calls the forgotten dumps and he claims there are tens of thousands of them to be found. The hobby of bottle-collecting also covers the collecting of pot-lids and other finds and in all English-speaking countries there are clubs, magazines and auctions to cater for collectors. Online auctions on e-bay for antique bottles and pot-lids receive bids from all over the world. Bottles and pot-lids are big business and for anyone wishing to dig up their own antiques, this book is indispensable.
The Story Of The Treasure Seekers
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Author : E. Nesbit
language : en
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-04-27
The Story Of The Treasure Seekers written by E. Nesbit and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-27 with Fiction categories.
This is the story of the six Bastable children: Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noël and little Horace Octavius, known as H. O. Due to their mother tragically passing away and their father’s business partner running away with the money, the ancient and most noble House of Bastable, as the children like to call it, has fallen. In order to restore their family fortune the resourceful siblings go on a hunt for treasure; but whether they dig for gold in the garden, or try to open up a sherry business, their treasure-hunting always ends up getting them in trouble. The Story of the Treasure Seekers was the first novel for children written by Edith Nesbit, and today it is one of her most well-known. The stories of the Bastable children were first published between 1894 and 1899 in a variety of periodicals. For the one-volume publication in 1899 the order of the stories was changed, and several of the stories underwent extensive rewriting. This and her later novels inspired several later writers of English children’s literature, amongst them C. S. Lewis, who references the Bastable children in The Magician’s Nephew. The Story of the Treasure Seekers spawned two sequels, The Wouldbegoods in 1901 and New Treasure Seekers in 1904.
The Dig
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Author : John Preston
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2016-04-19
The Dig written by John Preston and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with Fiction categories.
THE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMES A literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of World War II In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind.
Treasure Of The World
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Author : Tara Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2022-01-18
Treasure Of The World written by Tara Sullivan and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-18 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A young girl must find a way to help her family survive in a desolate and impoverished Bolivian silver mining community in this eye-opening tale of resilience. Twelve-year-old Ana wants nothing more than to escape the future set for her and her classmates in her small mining village. Boys her age are beginning to leave school to become silver miners and girls her age are destined to one day be the wives of miners. But when her often ill eleven-year-old brother is forced by their demanding father to start work in the mines, Ana gives up her dreams of school to volunteer in his place. The world of silver mining though is dark and dangerous and the men who work there don't want a girl in their way. Ana must find the courage to not only survive but save her family after the worst happens and a mining accident kills her father and leaves her brother missing.
The Story Of The Treasure Seekers
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Author : E. Nesbit
language : da
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899
The Story Of The Treasure Seekers written by E. Nesbit and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with categories.
Fortælling om Alice og hendes fem søskende, der drog ud for at finde en skat
Digging For Buried Treasure
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Author : Lisa Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Digging For Buried Treasure written by Lisa Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
The Big Dig
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Author : D'Arcy O'Connor
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 1988
The Big Dig written by D'Arcy O'Connor and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Travel categories.
Chronicles the many frustrated attempts to recover the treasure that is rumored to lie within the ingeniously elaborate labyrinth of winding tunnels and secret underwater chambers beneath Oak Island
Dig Even Deeper
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Author : Andrew Sach
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2011-01-21
Dig Even Deeper written by Andrew Sach and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-21 with Religion categories.
What does an Old Testament book have to say to us in the twenty-first century? Discover the message of a Bible book for yourself by using tools which help you "dig deeper."
Agency And Integrality
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Author : Michael J. White
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Agency And Integrality written by Michael J. White and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
It is not very surprising that it was no less true in antiquity than it is today that adult human beings are held to be responsible for most of their actions. Indeed, virtually all cultures in all historical periods seem to have had some conception of human agency which, in the absence of certain responsibility-defeating conditions, entails such responsibility. Few philosophers have had the temerity to maintain that this entailment is trivial because such responsibility-defeating conditions are always present. Another not very surprising fact is that ancient thinkers tended to ascribe integrality to "what is" (to on). That is, they typically regarded "what is" as a cosmos or whole with distinguishable parts that fit together in some coherent or cohesive manner, rather than either as a "unity" with no parts or as a collection containing members (ta onta or "things that are") standing in no "natural" relations to one another. 1 The philoso phical problem of determinism and responsibility may, I think, best be characterized as follows: it is the problem of preserving the phenomenon of human agency (which would seem to require a certain separateness of individual human beings from the rest of the cosmos) when one sets about the philosophical or scientific task of explaining the integrality of "what is" by means of the development of a theory of causation or explanation ( concepts that came to be lumped together by the Greeks under the term "aitia") .
Detecting The Treasure Coast Terry Shannon
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Author : Jim Brouwer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04
Detecting The Treasure Coast Terry Shannon written by Jim Brouwer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04 with categories.
A instructional book o