1,723円 'Believable characters, a vivid sense of time and place, thoroughly enjoyable' Rosie Goodwin The emotionally gripping third book in the beloved classic series from 'one of the nation's favourite saga author' (Lancashire Post) in the grand tradition of Katie Flynn, Dilly Court and Josephine Cox. J...

394円 Der erzgebirgische Bergbau, der sich bis ins 12. Jahrhundert zurückverfolgen lässt, erlebt in seiner zweiten Hauptperiode (1450 - 1620) mit der Entdeckung zahlreicher neuer Lagerstätten eine besondere Ausprägung. Denn die Erschließung größerer Teufenbereiche zielt auch auf neue technische Lösunge...

3,973円 Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little mining was deep enough to require maps. However, the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century, such as the Comstock Lode...

3,310円 When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the California Gold Rush. Their search for wealth took them from San Francisco into the gold country and then over the Sierra into Nevada’s Gold Canyon,...

3,973円 Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far ...

2,912円 The image of Old West saloons as sites of violence and raucous entertainment has been perpetuated by film and legend, but the true story of such establishments is far more complex. In Boomtown Saloons, archaeologist Kelly J. Dixon recounts the excavation of four historic saloon sites in Nevada’s ...

0円 The history of gold prospecting in the United States, and the massive gold resources still waiting to be found in the lower 48 states are not known by the overwhelming majority of American citizens. Most Americans don’t know that: •Gold has already been found in over 75% of the United States - 38...

1,326円 Al proceso de gestación del drama técnico y humano más espectacular de la historia minera chilena le faltaba un libro como este. Tan enterrados como los 33 mineros habían quedado los hechos pormenorizados de esa saga impresionante. Un porcentaje enorme de esa historia tenía que ver con ignorados ...

1,326円 "The gestation process of the most spectacular technical and human drama in Chilean mining history lacked a book like this. Buried, as the 33 miners, were the detailed events of this amazing saga. A huge percentage of that story had to do with ignored geologists, drillers and mining technicians w...

1,591円 A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community.The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the1880s - t...

315円 Der Einfluss Sachsens auf das russische Montanwesen reicht bis zum Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts zurück, nachdem Peter der Große anlässlich seiner ersten Visite bei August dem Starken im Jahre 1698 um Hilfe ersucht hatte. Russland brauchte dringend Fachleute des Berg- und Hüttenwesens, um die zahlr...

1,119円 Georgius Agricola (1494 - 1555) gilt als herausragender europäischer Renaissancegelehrter und Humanist. In aller Welt bekannt wurde vor allem sein Lebenswerk De re metallica libri XII, das als systematische Darstellung des gesamten Berg- und Hüttenwesens jener Zeit die Herausbildung der Montanwis...