The greatest treasure-hunting stories ever told : twenty-one tales of discovery
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| Subject |
| Treasure troves > Fiction. |
| Genre |
| Action and adventure fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 1585746835
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Physical Description
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xii, 292 pages - Publisher Guilford, Conn. : Globe Pequot Press, [2003]
- Copyright ©2003
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Lyons Press." Short stories. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Treasure in a temple / Andr M̌alraux -- The lost San Saba mine / J. Frank Dobie -- The gold bug / Edgar Allan Poe -- The discovery of Nineveh / Austen Henry Layard -- Benedict Mol and the Schatz of Compostella / George Borrow -- The tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen / Howard Carter -- A search in the tower / Samuel Pepys -- Captain Phips and the Spanish wreck / Cotton Mather -- The Tun-Huang treasure / M. Aurel Stein -- Under Vigo Bay / Jules Verne -- Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Exploration Fawcett / P. H. Fawcett -- The treasure / Sholem Aleichem -- A painted stone / John L. Stephens -- Solomon's treasure chamber / H. Rider Haggard -- Montezuma's gold / Bernal Diaz del Castillo -- The treasure of the Sierra Madre / B. Traven -- The lost Magato trail, the skeleton, and the diamond bags / Hedley A. Chilvers -- The salvage of the Laurentic treasure / Pierre de Lotil and Jean Rivoire -- The treasure of "El Chato" Nevr̀ez / Arthur L. Campa -- The secret of the ebony cabinet / Richard D. Altick. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 37.95 |