Talking Mountains (16 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. Chris Butterscotch "In Touch" / Anne Hosansky "The Message" / Wendy Holborow "Moving Through Mountains" / Coralie Hughes Jensen "Unfathomable" / Beverley Smith "Burn" / Carol Wolrich "Greetings, Sunrise" / Jo Swingler "Simple Is Complicated" / Solrun Hoaas "The Vase" / Kathie Giorgio "Talking To The Dead" / Vanessa Gebbie "Calendar Country" / Helen Kitson "Olympia's Slippers" / Tua Laine "The Quickening" / Victoria Adderley "Feat Of Clay" / Chris Sofge "The Collection" (SL#85).…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Poetry; Poetry; Australian::Australian Poetry, Prose, Verse. ISBN: 0724012745. ISBN/EAN: 9780724012749. Inventory No: 280157.

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date: 2025-01 Pages: 200 Publisher: China Tourism Press Talking About Mountains and Seas is the first national reality show promoting and explaining cultural tourism. featuring celebrity guests such as Zhang Xiaolong. exploring five unique and hidden gem cities. Based on the program's content and in conjunction with the publisher's Travel Across China book brand. the book Travel Across China: Talking About Mountains and Seas was planned and published. This book.…

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paperback. Condition: New. Language:Chinese.Paperback.Pub Date:2024-09 Pages:256 Publisher:Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House Classic of Mountains and Seas is an ancient Chinese encyclopedia. the ancestor of ancient and modern strange stories. and Mr. Lu Xun called it a treasure book. Adapted from the original text. the food cartoonist Bu Baichi travels through the famous mountains and seas in Classic of Mountains and Seas and explores rare and exotic animals. This time. Bu Baichi and the auspicious beast Jiaozi.…

paperback. Condition: New. Language:Chinese.Paperback.Pub Date:2024-07 Pages:256 Publisher:Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House Do you know? There are pearl fish in the river of Geshan Mountain. which can spit out pearls. Eating them will prevent you from getting epidemics; there is a kind of turtle called Xigui on Qizhong Mountain. and its tortoise shell can be used as medicine; there is a kind of mouse on Ganzao Mountain. and eating its meat will prevent people from getting tumors; there is also a plant called T.…

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None. Condition: Very Good. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x19,5 cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on bluish laid paper. Fold marks, two small holes on folds, ink mildly faded but still legible, paper slightly age-toned, but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand. A captivating original autograph letter written by a California gold miner, talking about his experiences in Garden Valley (El Dorado Co.) in the 1850s. The author (originally from Vermont) vividly describes his challenging voyage from New York to San Francisco on board a steamer, when steerage passengers were fed with "hard bread & stinking meat," many people contracted "Panama fever," and the author himself was so sick that "he could hardly crawl, walk or tumble around." In great detail, he talks about the jobs he took, including gold mining, tree cutting and working at a sawmill, and records his salary and the cost of boarding. Optimistically, he mentions that "I have never found that large Nuget of gold you told me to send you, but I expect to soon" and states that he likes California, despite all the deprivations he has experienced. The author also comments on the local customs of spending Sundays - "here it is a place of amusement, playing, dancing, gambling &c.; there is no Sabbath here, it's a day of trade or traffick," California mild climate, &c. Overall a great example of an early California gold mining letter, geographically focusing on El Dorado County. The text of the letter (the spelling is original): " Dear Friend, I take the opportunity to write to you and let you know that I am alive and doing well. You must excuse for not writing before. I have been in a great hurry all the time that I have been here and could scarcely get time to write to my folks. I have been in very good health every since I have been here and have grown fleshy. I weigh 25 lbs more that I ever did in the States. My weight last week was 172 lbs. I arrived at San Francisco Oct. 16, just able to crawl off the steamer, and felt like saying bad luck to the ship what [sic!] brought me over. I was sick all the way and so poor that I could hardly crawl, walk or tumble around <…> 1700 passengers. The provisions were not fit to throw at sharks, hard bread & stinking meat was our principle living. One beef was taken on board alive. Some of it was killed by the butcher & some died and was dressed for the steerage passengers. But not one of the passengers died on the whole voyge [sic!]. Some had the Panama fever. One young fellow that I got acquainted on board was taken with the fever a few days before we reached San Francisco, and I took him to the hospital. I have not herd [sic!] from him since. When I got to Sacramento I parted with my friends & started for the Mountains after work. After traveling some time I found work in a steam sawmill at one dollar a day. I worked there 50 days and then the mill stopped for the winter & I went to mining & mined about four weeks & made nothing and had my board to pay. Besides I had to pay for board $4 a week. <…> Quit my claim, bought another in which I made from 3 to 5 dollars a day and paid four dollars for water to work with, worked the claim three weeks, sold it and now I and my partner are cutting logs by the thousand. We have took a contract to cut 150 thousand feet, 1,50 a thousand, We average 6 thousand a day, $4 ½ a day for three weeks. My partner is a carpenter and we talk of taking a job of fluming to carry water from one hill to another, 75 feet high, 120 rods long at $5 a rod, that will take about a month. We shall do this or go to mining again. <…> I have never found that large Nuget of gold you told me to send you, but I expect to soon. I like California very much. I don't expect to come to Vt again to live unless I strike it big. Today is called Sabbath at home, but here it is a place of amusement, playing, dancing, gambling &c. There is no Sabbath here, it's a day of trade or traffick. The weather is very warm here now, as warm as July in Vt, yet there is snow in sight on the Siera [sic!] Nevada Range and will remain in sight all summer from the Valley. It is a very healthy country. I think it would be good for your health to come our her [sic!]. <…> I have not slept in but one bed since I left NY berth on ship, was in the huricane <…>, and I have slept ever since on a pine board, rolled up in blankets no better than horse blankets. But that is as good as I want. I have to do my own cooking, that is the worst of all and have to do that by a fire place. But I think that here is a better times coming and keep diging [sic!] away <…> ".…