California's Gold Rush Country: A Guide to the Best of the Mother Lode

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You can explore California's Gold Rush Country with this comprehensive guide to historic sites, lodging and dining, shopping and recreational opportunities. From assay offices to tailing wheels, antique fairs and wine tours, this book is packed with travel tips, especially popular for this year's Sequiscentennial.

The Pelican Guide to Sacramento and the Gold Country (Pelican Guides)

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The Pelican Guide to Sacramento and the Gold Country (Pelican Guides)
Faren Maree Bachelis
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ASIN: 0882894978

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Designed to give the discriminating traveler insight into some of the most interesting locations within the United States, this series makes planning a trip simple, enjoyable, and educational.

GOLD RUSH COUNTRY GUIDE TO CALIFORNIA'S MOTHER LODE AND NORTHERN MINES

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GOLD RUSH COUNTRY GUIDE TO CALIFORNIA'S MOTHER LODE AND NORTHERN MINES
Editors of Sunset Books and Sunset Magazine
Manufacturer: Lane Books
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ASIN: B000JWBNQO

Gold Rush Country: Guide to California's Mother Lode & Northern Mines

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Gold Rush Country: Guide to California's Mother Lode & Northern Mines
Oscar Lewis
Manufacturer: Lane Book Company
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Gold Rush Country: Guide to California's Mother Lode & Northern Mines

Manufacturer: Lane Book Company
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Sunset Discovery Book: Gold Rush Country: Revised Edition: Unique Foldout Map: Guide to California's Mother Load and Northern Mines [pictorial, Travelers Guide, Biography of the area

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Sunset Discovery Book: Gold Rush Country: Revised Edition: Unique Foldout Map: Guide to California's Mother Load and Northern Mines [pictorial, Travelers Guide, Biography of the area
Sunset Books and Sunset Magazine Editors
Manufacturer: Lane Publishing Co
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ASIN: B000LRN6K8

A guide to treasure in California (Treasure guide series)

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great treasure areas mentioned, but my map was missing!!!

A guide to treasure in California (Treasure guide series)
Thomas Penfield
Manufacturer: True Treasure Publications
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Buried Treasures of California (Buried Treasures)

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great treasure areas mentioned, but my map was missing!!!.......1999-06-01

My review would be much better if I had had the map to refer too each time, but since mine is missing that's not possible. They really need to put the map in the book permanently. Then you'll have a good book.

Geologic guide to the gas and oil fields of northern California (California. Division of Mines and Geology. Bulletin)

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Geologic guide to the gas and oil fields of northern California (California. Division of Mines and Geology. Bulletin)
Oliver E Bowen
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The California Gold Rush: A Guide to the California Gold Rush

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Rich In Golden Information!
Well-organized, easy to understand and comprehensive

The California Gold Rush: A Guide to the California Gold Rush
Eugene R. Hart
Manufacturer: Freewheel Publications
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ASIN: 0963419714

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At home or on the road, this informative book will help you explore the major events of western expansionism and lasting changes that led up to and beyond the worlds best known gold rush. Each section is packed with interesting descriptions and illustrations designed to entertain as well as add to your understanding of this era. Included are the details of crossing the continent by wagon on the most widely used land route to California in 1849. Or jump aboard a ship for a voyage by sea via the Panama or Cape Horn routes. Once in the gold fields, take in-depth look at the very oldest methods to the more recent technologies miners used to extract gold from the region known as the mother lode. A wide selection of gold rush towns that emerged during this unique period of American history have also been includedall of which you can still visit today and experience throughout the entire length of California's historical Highway 49. Designed for ages 10 and up and teachers who cover California history.

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Rich In Golden Information!.......2000-04-12

Good books on gold rush history are hard to come by, especially one thoughtful enough to appeal to teaching usage as well. Good work and looking forward to more from an author full of potential.

Well-organized, easy to understand and comprehensive.......1998-03-17

This book puts the reader in the shoes of those who participated in the great rush to California. Of special interest was the never before published diary of Charles Brown, how miners extracted the gold from the ground and a nice sampling of the Gold Rush towns that one can still visit today. Recommended! Especially if you are a teacher.

AAA California's Mother Lode Guide Map: Angels Camp,California Caverns,Columbia,Downieville,Empire Mine,Jamestown,Malakoff Diggins,Mariposa,Marshall Gold Discovery,Mercer Caverns,Moaning Cavern,Murphys,Nevada City,Railtown,Sutter Creek,Volcano (730335006810, 2007-43547505)

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AAA California's Mother Lode Guide Map: Angels Camp,California Caverns,Columbia,Downieville,Empire Mine,Jamestown,Malakoff Diggins,Mariposa,Marshall Gold Discovery,Mercer Caverns,Moaning Cavern,Murphys,Nevada City,Railtown,Sutter Creek,Volcano (730335006810, 2007-43547505)
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Manufacturer: ACSC
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Binding: Map

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A map plus details on California's storied Gold Rush country, including historic towns, points of interest and the colorful personalities of the period. Explore Series 2007. Folded Map.

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Unusual Historic Perspective, Written in Suspense

The Perspective Everybody Must Read

An oftentime misunderstood book

Through a mirror darkly...

Cultures Clash and Culture Deceives

Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Amin Maalouf
Manufacturer: Schocken
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ASIN: 0805208984
Release Date: 1989-04-29

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The author has combed the works of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants. He retells their story and offers insights into the historical forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today.

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Unusual Historic Perspective, Written in Suspense.......2007-08-21

The quality of this book speaks for itself, if it is written from the non-Western perspective of the crusades, but manages to score an average of 4,5 of 5 stars from 74 primarily US reviews prior to mine. Especially as the overall sentiment in these reviews stays virtually the same, pre 9-11, immediately post 9-11, during the Bush Crusades and after them.

The book has been written in 1983 in French, translated into English in 1984 and published in the US in 1985. As such, the book would need an update, not only concerning the Bush Crusades, but also about the information that the wannabe assasin of Pope John Paul II in 1981 wasn't the Muslim Turk Mehmet Ali Agca by himself, but a ploy: The puppet master was in the Soviet polit bureau, via Bulgarian and East German secret service ploys. The author Amin Maalouf was born in Lebanon and migrated to France in 1976, during the Lebanese (religious) civil war. He's an Arab Christian.

The book is not meant to inform on the European political, religious, financial and other motivations for the crusades, but starts with the troops arriving in Muslim territories. Hence, it is also not concerned with the prior Muslim conquest of the previously Christian territories. Which in turn had been European-invaded empires by the Romans and Greek, the Jews before that, then the Egyptians, prior to that the Akan and prior in turn the San (Bushmen). But even they were invading "Neanderthal" territory. So please, to anyone: Don't assume, "you" were there originally... (I left out some Asian invaders.) I hoped to find out anything at all about the Christian Nubian empires (either one or all of Nobadia, Makuria, Alwa), which were left alone till then, but got invaded by the Muslims as revenge for helping the Europeans in one of the crusades. Only Abyssinia (today's Ethiopia) remained exempted from the jihad. Not a word even of their existence. So, here's a message: There's a third perspective, one which is even more difficult to find any information of... (Please leave a comment on any known source.)

The title of the book makes the non-Western perspective clear, however, it isn't entirely correct either. But then again, book titles rarely are as the authors often do not have any control over the titles, changed for commercial reasons by the publishers. The author is Arab - not Muslim -, the main sources are historic Arab historians, yet the perspective is written from non-Arab leaders as well, such as Turks, Kurds, Persians, Egyptians. But also Armenians and other local Christians. In addition, it is not about "the crusades", as that would imply all of them. "Of course", it's only about those, which were directed against the Eastern Muslim territories. Not those against Muslim territories in Iberia, not those against Christian "heretics" such as the Waldensians within Europe, not those against European Jews (which were automatic part of any crusade), not those against European "pagans", such as the original Baltic Prussians, which for political reasons some Germans adopted the name from, and not those crusades, which didn't make it to the desired Muslim destinations, such as the Shepherds Crusades and also not the Children's Crusade, as the few surviving kids who really made it to the destination, were enslaved before they could leave the ships. By reading this book's view, you won't get a feeling of "crusades" either, but of one single 200-year-war, with several reinforcements - not numerically listed - of European troops. Who are called "Franj". Referring to all of them, such as the French, Italians, Germans, English etc. The same as all Muslims are headed under "Arabs" in the English title. Differentiations were made towards the "Rum" (pronounce similar to Roome), the Byzantine Christians and of course all the local minority Christians. The German title, translated into English, is more polemic, but more precise at the same time: "The Holy War of the Barbarians".

Most reviewers point out that the book is NOT polemicly subjective against Westerners in contrast to an adulation of the Muslims. I find it even intriguing that the author refrains from listing the civilizing effect on Europe, the crusades had (and earlier Muslim invasions of Iberia and later ones of Eastern and Central Europe). Before the crusades, Europeans didn't have essential items such as sugar and shoes (instead honey and rag/fur wrappings). Not to mention hygiene, which was lost after the Roman empire. The book does mention medicine and a reviewer criticizes that as arbitrary quoting by the author. However, it is historic fact that the Muslims re-introduced medicine into Europe. For one thing, it was considered heretic in Europe to dissect corpses, making it impossible for "doctors" to know, how humans look like inside. It is often said, the Muslims got sophisticated medicine originally from the Romans and Greeks. Part of it, however, all of them received medicine from ancient Black Egyptians. In fact, the latter were able to diagnose fine bone crackings/fractures, something TODAY'S Westernes (nor anybody else) haven't the faintest idea, how they did that without x-rays. Some reviewers think the mentioned cannibalism of some crusaders has to be reproduced historic Muslim propaganda. Not so. There are Western sources, by the crusaders themselves. As the leaders were not able to prevent the masses - not soldiers - travelling with them to engage in that, as they had no control over them anymore. For an elaboration read the 1957 Western book The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (Galaxy Books). I would like to note that it is amazing how little the author engages in what might be considered biased. For example, he is stating, referring to the last medievil Franj invasion of Egypt: "Never again would the Occidentals attempt to invade the land of the Nile." But in 1798, the Franj returned under Corsican Napoleon. In the 19th century, the UK occupied Egypt, in the 20th century warring resumed, with Israel. Yet, the author isn't using history for tempting more contemporary issues.

The Perspective Everybody Must Read.......2007-08-17

I ordered this book along with one on the Crusades from the Christian perspective (or the 'Western' perspective) hoping to get each side of the story, so to speak.

In picking up both books I was a bit apprehensive wondering whether or not they would be overly one-sided. For example, I was not looking for a piece of 'slam' journalism justifying the Middle East's current ills on the invasions of Crusaders 1000 years ago. This book is certainly not that. Mr. Maalouf painstakingly takes the stories of the Crusades, written by Arab chroniclers, court attendants of the Sultans, and other historical records written during the Crusades themselves, and gives you the story of the Crusades through Arab eyes.

What I found very refreshing about Mr. Maalouf's writing is that he simply didn't rely on the writings as the end all to tell the story, when it was clear that the contemporaneous writings aren't telling the whole story. At times when accounts don't seem credible, or when two accounts differ substantially (such as over the number of deaths at a battle), Mr. Maalouf looks past the hyperbole and rhetoric that can often accompany such tales and notifies the reader that the conflicts exist, or that agreement over such details has not been reached. He then generally takes the effort to research city populations, and army sizes, etc. to come to a satisfactory answer to the question posed. As you can imagine, there are accounts of "10,000" people slaughtered - when we know, now, that the town probably was not big enough to hold more than a couple thousand. Mr. Maalouf goes out of his way to bring you the truth, and not just the rhetoric of the day.

Another thing I truly enjoyed about this account was that the author went out of his way to put the words and writings of the chroniclers in their proper context, which, as you can imagine, makes a big difference, especially for Westerners who may be unfamiliar with Muslims/Arab tradition and the Middle Eastern makeup of the time. For example, before, during, and after the Crusades, the Middle East was wrought with fighting not just between Muslims and Christians, but also between other Muslims (Shia vs. Sunni, Kurd v. Arab v. Persian v. Turk, etc.), and from with other non-Muslim and non-Christan foes (Arabs v. Mongols). The sultans were battling each other. The different sects were battling each other. The Turks and the Persians were encroaching on Arab lands, as were the Byzantines and the Mongols. The Crusaders were attacking Jerusalem. During some points, some Muslim groups even allied themselves with the Crusaders to fight other Muslim groups. Thus, each chronicler (the Crusades lasted hundreds of years) wrote in a different time with a different attitude towards the peoples and places. Some wrote during relative peace, when Christian and Arab coexisted, while some wrote during all-out war. Some wrote when the tensions between Muslims themselves were high, some when there was relative accord. Some chroniclers wrote during periods of Muslim domination, and some wrote during times where it seemed inevitable the Christians would control the Middle East and Islam would die out. Mr. Maalouf ably ties all of the stories together, explaining the different attitudes among chroniclers.

All in all, an excellent book. It is eye-opening, not because it tells some one-sided story as interpreted by today's Muslims, but because it really gives you an understanding about how the people felt then. It truly does tell the story through their eyes - the Arabs of 1000 years ago.

Oh, and it is a "quick" read. That is, nothing in this book bogs down the reader or requires you to grab other books for explanation.

An oftentime misunderstood book.......2007-07-19

This is a good book and a great read. However, it is often read as a "real" history book, which it is not by a long shot, and probably was not intended as such either - Amin Malouf is a very political author, after all. Malouf has written an elegant text as well worth reading as many other introductory books to the crusades. It is telling, however, that the passage most often quoted from "The Crusades through Arab Eyes", Usama ibn Munquidhs 12th-century negative third-hand commentary on "frankish" medicine, has been cut and pasted by Malouf from its original context, omitting the autobiographer's original first-hand positive assessment of the newcomer's medical arts. That example is hardly the only one it the book that makes it readily apparent that Malouf is not a historian and lacks a lot of in-depth knowledge of the period he describes (or worse, has decided to omit details he does not find support his take on things). I read this book much as I read Malouf's other works of historical fiction, but I would not treat it as a real history book.

Through a mirror darkly..........2007-06-27

This is a good companion to a serious study of the Crusades. It gives a lot of interesting info on the state of the arab muslim world in the time period, and the effect the invasion of the Franks had on Islamic identity and political cohesion. The parallels to modern times are inescapable, especialy as regards the seemingly absolute inability of the arab muslim world to unite around a single leader for longer than that leaders lifespan, and sometimes not even that long. What it does accomplish is to humanize the inhabitants of the levant during the crusades, abolishing the "richard lionheart"/ chivalrous knights ideal westerners may still carry. Heat, dirt, disease, terror, death, these were the daily companions of the Crusades, and thier gifts to the people of the eastern mediterranean coast.

Cultures Clash and Culture Deceives.......2007-04-19

This book explains the crusades as primarily political invasions, without much true spirituality involved for many participants. He shows, interestingly, that many Christians were better treated under Muslim rulers than under the rule of Europeans. You will benefit from seeing how there were good people on all sides of the conflicts, as well as the bad.
An important part of this book, is the Epilogue. In this summary, a comparison is made of the "Franj-administered" and "Occidental-administered" territories, with emphasis on the rights and responsibilities of rulers and subjects. There is a lot of wisdom in this comparison, and should be studied well by those attempting to envision institution-building in the future. Especially when any act of violence against the western lands or westerners can be portrayed in Arab media simply as vengeance for expeditions in 1191AD. For reviews of similar books, see the resources pages at civilsociety at seedwiki. Thanks.

Las Cruzadas Vistas Por Los Arabes / Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Biblioteca De Autor / Author Library)

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Las Cruzadas Vistas Por Los Arabes / Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Biblioteca De Autor / Author Library)
Amin Maalouf
Manufacturer: Alianza
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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Amin Maalouf
Manufacturer: Schocken
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ASIN: 080520833X
Release Date: 1985-01-13

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Oil Crusades: America Through Arab Eyes
Abdulhay Yahya Zalloum
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Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Manufacturer: SAQI BOOKS
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The â€œGale Encyclopedia of Scienceâ€ is written at a level somewhere between the introductory sources and the highly technical texts currently available. This six-volume set covers all major areas of science and engineering, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Alphabetically arranged entries provide a user-friendly format that makes the broad scope of information easy to access and decipher. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.

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