Quest For The Scorpions Jewel

Author : Amy Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593174323
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quest for the Scorpion's Jewel written by Amy Green and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his crippled leg, 15-year-old Jesse befriends a band of young warriors and risks his life to find a cure for the poisoned Parvel.

Author : Victoria Finlay
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0345466950
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewels written by Victoria Finlay and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth. With the same intense curiosity and narrative flair she displayed in her widely-praised book Color, Finlay journeys from the underground opal churches of outback Australia to the once pearl-rich rivers of Scotland; from the peridot mines on an Apache reservation in Arizona to the remote ruby mines in the mountains of northern Burma. She risks confronting scorpions to crawl through Cleopatra’s long-deserted emerald mines, tries her hand at gem cutting in the dusty Sri Lankan city where Marco Polo bartered for sapphires, and investigates a rumor that fifty years ago most of the world’s amber was mined by prisoners in a Soviet gulag. Jewels is a unique and often exhilarating voyage through history, across cultures, deep into the earth’s mantle, and up to the glittering heights of fame, power, and wealth. From the fabled curse of the Hope Diamond, to the disturbing truths about how pearls are cultured, to the peasants who were once executed for carrying amber to the centuries-old quest by magicians and scientists to make a perfect diamond, Jewels tells dazzling stories with a wonderment and brilliance truly worthy of its subjects.

Author : Sharon Skretting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993671609
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Treasure Quest I written by Sharon Skretting and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical adventure through time, taking young Captain Christopher and his loyal crew of orphaned stowaways on a perilous quest in search of Christopher's missing parents.

Author : Katarina
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
ISBN 13 : 1684914272
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shangri-La Frontier 7 written by Katarina and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunraku, aiming to bring the ruins of Wethermon back to life, tackles a new dungeon in order to upgrade his friend Bilac into a full-fledged Ancient Craftsman! Teaming up with OiCazzo and Pencilgon once more, they plunge deep into the heart of SLF! Meanwhile, top players from across the game are swarming around Sunraku, looking for info on taking down a Unique Monster. Can the fledgling Wolf-Gang clan hold its own in a conference full of wily competitors?

Author : Chris Gooddie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400847230
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewel Hunter written by Chris Gooddie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of one man's obsession with rainforest jewels, this is the story of an impossible dream: a quest to see every one of the world's most elusive avian gems--a group of birds known as pittas--in a single year. Insightful, compelling, and laugh-out-loud funny, this is more than a book about birds. It's a true story detailing the lengths to which a man will go to escape his midlife crisis. A travelogue with a difference, it follows a journey from the suburban straitjacket of High Wycombe to the steamy, leech-infested rainforests of remotest Asia, Africa, and Australia. Dangerous situations, personal traumas, and logistical nightmares threaten The Jewel Hunter's progress. Will venomous snakes or razor-clawed bears intervene? Or will running out of fuel mid-Pacific ultimately sink the mission? The race is on. . . . If you've ever yearned to escape your day job, wondered what makes men tick, or simply puzzled over how to make a truly world-class cup of tea, this is a book for you.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quest written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Campbell
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 088920439X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination written by Jane Campbell and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary writer Byatt uses the term heliotropic in two ways. First, it refers to her exploration and development of her own relation to the sun and to how her women characters experience adventures of the mind and feelings that bring them into the sun's light. Second, it refers to the fact that she suffers from seasonal affective disorder, and

Author : Paul Scott
Publisher : Avon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780380498338
Total Pages : 1925 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewel in the Crown written by Paul Scott and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 1925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jewel in the crown -- The day of the scorpion -- The towers of silence -- A division of the spoils.

Author : Victoria Finlay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340830130
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buried Treasure written by Victoria Finlay and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intrepid journey to uncover the secret histories of precious stones. Victoria's search takes her to Egypt to find the lost emerald mines of Cleopatra, to the Australian opal fields with their underground towns, to Burma where she is spied on by the military junta, and to a secret location to meet the world's best diamond cutter. She reveals the wealth of human stories behind gemstones, and discovers, with the advent of synthetics, an industry on the brink of crisis.

Author : Dave Wolverton
Publisher : Corgi
ISBN 13 : 9780440864738
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revenge of the Scorpion King written by Dave Wolverton and published by Corgi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: