Автор: Sazaklis John Название: The Gold Miner`s Ghost ISBN: 1663909946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781663909947 Издательство: Sage Publications Цена: 23290.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
ON THE NIGHT TRAINS, THE LAST STOP WAS ALWAYS HELL.
The price exacted from across the African subcontinent for South Africa's stalled 20th-century industrial revolution is, in human terms, still largely hidden from history. For half a century, up to the mid-1950s, privately operated trains travelled by night between Ressano Garcia, on the Mozambique border, and Booysens station, in Johannesburg. The night trains carried Mozambicans recruited to work in the mines of the booming Witwatersrand. The up-trains disgorged their human cargo into the maw of the great Rand mining machine, while the down-trains whisked away the time-expired miners - often ill, broken or insane, and preyed on by con men, petty criminals and corrupt officials. While mine labour was recruited from all over southern Africa, Mozambican migrants made up the largest component, and they paid the highest price.
Charles van Onselen clinically reconstructs the world of the night trains, which were run as a partnership between the mining houses and the railways. By tracing the up and down rail journeys undertaken by black migrants over half a century it is possible to discern how racial thinking, expressed logistically, reflected South Africa's evolving systems of segregation and apartheid. Mirroring the brutal logic of industrial capitalism, this was a system of transport designed to maximise profit at the expense of the health, well-being and even the lives of those it conveyed.
The story of the night trains echoes today through songs such as 'Stimela' and 'Shosholoza'. But the experience of the poverty-stricken Mozambicans who travelled on the trains has never been told. THE NIGHT TRAINS lays bare this hellish world.
Автор: Globe Alexander Название: Gold, Grit, Guns: Miners on Bc`s Fraser River in 1858 ISBN: 1553805844 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781553805847 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 30010.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Literary Nonfiction. GOLD, GRIT, GUNS is the first book based on the only four surviving diaries written by miners who sought their golden fortunes on British Columbia's Fraser River in 1858. What was life like for those adventurers? How did their actions impact the creation of British Columbia? George Beam, an Illinois-born settler on Whidbey Island in Washington State, brought hopes of American annexation and distrust of First Nations. He left with a thousand dollars. Otis Parsons of Connecticut made money as a California merchant, then volunteered to build new roads from Harrison Lake to Lillooet. He used them for merchandising. The third miner, an unnamed Upper Canadian, befriended Colonial officials and First Nations people. He earned a thousand dollars, overwintered in Victoria, then drowned in the Cariboo gold rush in the 1860s. George Slocumb from Illinois suffered the fate of most--increasing poverty and desperation. Background chapters present miners' costs, the first detailed study of 1858 mining practices, and the grim story of how mining culture compromised First Nations life. GOLD, GRIT, GUNS is rich with 115 rarely seen illustrations of life on the Fraser in 1858 as well as maps of the area.
Two young backwoods brothers light out to find gold in Georgia's mountains in 1830.
They discover the best and worst men, and women, among the thousands of miners, hundreds of prostitutes, and the few original settlers.
They take separate paths to make money, find love, an education. In a town flowing with money and upheavals, including having all its Indian population driven out at the behest of another backwoodsman, Andrew Jackson. They also face a serial killer.
Автор: S. G. Kirkpatrick T. Название: The Hydraulic Gold Miner`s Manual ISBN: 1297740033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781297740039 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18850.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Название: Mine Safety: Msha`s and Other Federal Agencies` Improved Oversight Could Enhance Safety for Coal Miners - Scholar`s Choice Edition ISBN: 1296016277 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781296016272 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 19310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
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Автор: Moore Grahame Название: Gold Miner`s Daughter ISBN: 0648799182 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780648799184 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Gold Miner's Daughter - Spiritual gift of love, the story of sixty-five-year-old Josef Caldwell who has retired and decides to try his hand at writing his memoirs. He wants to tell the world of all his exciting life experiences. Josef looks for a secluded place with a beautiful outlook; and finds, not only his solitary dream location but the love of his life, a fifty-five-year-old Gold Miner's daughter, Greta Gerber.
But the old iron shack, situated at the bottom of an abandoned stone quarry holds many secrets of its own. Josef surprisingly stumbles across an abandoned gold mine, hidden deep in the quarry. Unleashing a wealth beyond imagination and unfortunately attracts the nightmare, greed and grief that follows.
Josef and Greta's intimate love story is interrupted sadly by his untimely death. But Josef's spirit can't let her go This is the tale of an everlasting spiritual gift of love.
A remarkable story of Passion, Lust, and Intrigue.
