Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Treasure Island
Anonim
The Island Treasure
The Island Treasure Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Island Treasure book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Treasure Islands
Nicholas Shaxson
Author : Nicholas Shaxson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446450147
Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson Pdf
WITH NEW AND UPDATED MATERIAL Billionaire Warren Buffet, currently the third wealthiest man in the world, paid the lowest rate of tax among his office staff, including his receptionist. In 2006 the world's three biggest banana companies did nearly £400 million worth of business in Britain but paid just £128,000 in tax between them. In January 2009, US law enforcement fined Lloyds TSB $350 million after it admitted secretly channelling Iranian and Sudanese money into the US banking system. Tax havens are the most important single reason why poor people and poor countries stay poor. They lie at the very heart of the global economy, with over half the world trade processed through them. They have been instrumental in nearly every major economic event, in every big financial scandal, and in every financial crisis since the 1970s, including the latest global economic downturn. In Treasure Islands, Nicholas Shaxson shows how this happened, and what this means for you.
Rosemary and the Island Treasure
Barbara K. Robertson
Author : Barbara K. Robertson
Publisher : Winslowhouse International
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1890817589
Rosemary and the Island Treasure by Barbara K. Robertson Pdf
Magically transported back in time to 1947, ten-year-old Rosemary Rita searches for buried treasure with her grandmother, also age ten, on the island of Green Turtle Cay.
Treasure Island!!!
Sara Levine
Author : Sara Levine
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609459147
Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine Pdf
A young slacker decides to live her life according to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure: “A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent” (The New York Times). When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broken from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold? Convinced that Stevenson’s book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she’d originally planned. Treasure Island!!! is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice—“insane, hilarious, and irreverent” (Alice Sebold). “Highly original . . . will keep you entertained in spite of (or more accurately, because of) its toxic narrator.” —Library Journal “A hoot.” —Kirkus Reviews
Oak Island Illustrated
John Bell
Author : John Bell
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459506725
Oak Island Illustrated by John Bell Pdf
More than two centuries ago, compelling evidence of buried treasure was found on Nova Scotia's Oak Island. Since then, extensive engineering works have been discovered and mysterious objects unearthed in and around the island's "Money Pit." The ongoing search has been featured on a long-running popular television series, but to this day, the island guards its secrets. In this book, historian John Bell presents all the competing theories — about who buried treasure on the island and how the complex structures in the Money Pit that have kept treasure hunters at bay were created. Is the island the former settlement of pre-Columbian Vikings? The location of a lost pirate treasure or royal treasures from England? The hiding spot for rogue captains of Spanish treasure ships? John Bell presents each theory in turn. Bell also provides a detailed illustration of the mysterious work that was done on the island prior to the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795. The illustration shows each element of the Pit's design as it was first built — including elaborate flood tunnels, a cave-in shaft, and more. This book offers a fascinating opportunity to explore many centuries of world history from the perspective of one of the greatest mysteries of all time. The extensive visuals showcase what treasures could have been hidden, and illustrate the lives of the adventurers, renegades, pirates, politicians, and paranormal entities that might be responsible for this puzzle.
Silver
Andrew Motion
Author : Andrew Motion
Publisher : Crown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307884893
Silver by Andrew Motion Pdf
This ebook includes a copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island! A rip-roaring sequel to Treasure Island—Robert Louis Stevenson’s beloved classic—about two young friends and their high-seas adventure with dangerous pirates and long-lost treasure. It's almost forty years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: Jim Hawkins now runs an inn called the Hispaniola on the English coast with his son, Jim, and Long John Silver has returned to England to live in obscurity with his daughter, Natty. Their lives are quiet and unremarkable; their adventures have seemingly ended. But for Jim and Natty, the adventure is just beginning. One night, Natty approaches young Jim with a proposition: return to Treasure Island and find the remaining treasure that their fathers left behind so many years before. As Jim and Natty set sail in their fathers' footsteps, they quickly learn that this journey will not be easy. Immediately, they come up against murderous pirates, long-held grudges, and greed and deception lurking in every corner. And when they arrive on Treasure Island, they find terrible scenes awaiting them—difficulties which require all their wit as well as their courage. Nor does the adventure end there, since they have to sail homeward again... Andrew Motion’s sequel—rollicking, heartfelt, and utterly brilliant—would make Robert Louis Stevenson proud.
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Usborne Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0746080158
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Pdf
An innkeeper's son finds a treasure map that leads him to a pirate's fortune.
The Curse of Treasure Island
Francis Bryan
Author : Francis Bryan
Publisher : NAL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 045120879X
The Curse of Treasure Island by Francis Bryan Pdf
In 1883, Treasure Island established Robert Louis Stevenson's literary reputation and brought him instant fame. Its characters gained a permanent place in popular culture, especially the memorable one-legged rascal Long John Silver and his parrot, Cap'n Flint, squawking, "Pieces of Eight!" Now Francis Bryan gives due homage to the immortal original with this thrilling sequel. It is ten years since the Hispaniola sailed with its hoard of gold from Treasure Island. Now twenty-four, Jim Hawkins is doing well as a boastful local hero. Life is comfortable, if not too exciting -- until a beautiful young woman in distress appears. Smitten, Jim is soon led into some very rough waters. With no alternative, he returns to "that accursed island," where his comrades marooned three mutinous pirates a decade earlier, and learns the fate of Joseph Tait -- the most murderous buccaneer of them all.... Book jacket.
Treasure Island
Nicolas Billon
Author : Nicolas Billon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1552453502
Treasure Island by Nicolas Billon Pdf
When Jim Hawkins finds the map to a legendary treasure, he embarks on a perilous voyage to claim it. His journey leads him to uncover a pirate mutiny, a chance meeting with a marooned misfit and ultimately to the discovery of what kind of person he wants to be. Robert Louis Stevenson's beloved coming-of-age adventure story is given a bold new stage adaptation by Governor General's Award winning playwright Nicolas Billon.
Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands
Bill Wyman,Richard Havers
Author : Bill Wyman,Richard Havers
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0750939672
Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands by Bill Wyman,Richard Havers Pdf
Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands is the who, what, when, where, why and how of historical treasures found in Great Britain and Ireland. Anyone who is interested in finding out more about the exciting discoveries made by amateur and professional archaeologists and what they tell us about the history of the British Isles will find this book a stimulating and entertaining companion. With copious colour and black and white illustrations, detailed maps, time lines, lists of museums and useful organisations, Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands is itself a treasure trove for the beginner or the more experience archaeological explorer.
Treasure Island
Lisa Norby
Author : Lisa Norby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0756943434
Treasure Island by Lisa Norby Pdf
An innkeeper's son finds a treasure map that leads him to a pirate's fortune.
The Oak Island Mystery, Solved
Joy A. Steele,Gordon Fader
Author : Joy A. Steele,Gordon Fader
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Oak Island (Lunenburg, N.S.)
ISBN : 1771087919
The Oak Island Mystery, Solved by Joy A. Steele,Gordon Fader Pdf
For more than two centuries, Oak Island, Nova Scotia, has been studied, searched, probed and cursed all the while failing to give up its secrets. Joy Steele's ground-breaking historical research into the island's true history is no less intriguing. In this second edition, Ms. Steele is joined by professional geologist Gordon Fader to not only solidify her theory, but to expand on it, including a thorough explanation of the area's geology.
Britain's Treasure Islands
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 190878721X
Britain's Treasure Islands by Anonim Pdf
The Annotated Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Pirates
ISBN : 193707501X
The Annotated Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Pdf
First published as a serialized children's story in 1881-1882, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island has become an enduring classic. It has all the elements of a great adventure story: a plot full of twists and turns, an escalating sense of treachery and impending disaster, and a quintessential villain. Teenager Jim Hawkins finds a map titled "Treasure Island" in the belongings of a stricken lodger at the Admiral Benbow Inn in 1750s England. He soon finds himself aboard the schooner Hispaniola with a crew of disguised pirates headed to the Caribbean on a quest to find buried treasure. Long John Silver, the peg-legged cook, is the leader of this wretched crew. He is both engaging and ruthless, feared by even his barbarous accomplices, and a shape-shifter, pretending to be Jim's good friend and enemy, secretly plotting a mutiny. When mutiny begins, Jim must save the day. This beloved adventure story is pure fiction--but fiction well grounded in historical and geographical reality. In The Annotated Treasure Island, editor and researcher Simon Barker-Benfield meticulously and lovingly annotates this voyage, offering crucial factual information, a sociopolitical context, and clear technical explanations that bring you closer to the action. Lavishly illustrated with pictures of nautical equipment, parts of ships, and period maps, The Annotated Treasure Island brings the seafaring vernacular to life. You'll learn about "blocks," "backstays," and "shrouds." And you'll see Jim and the crew handle the Hispaniola, whether it's the "simple" chore of raising the anchor--which in a similar, real vessel could require three hours'-worth of hauling in a very slimy cable six inches at a time--or the difficulty and meaning of "warping" and "putting a man in the chains" in order to take depth soundings. The story illustrations by Louis Rhead (1857-1926) deftly draw out the escalating dramatic tension. Would all the risk and hardship have been worth it? Just how much treasure was the crew after? What could one have bought with 700,000 pounds sterling in the 1700s? Even that question is answered in this newly annotated edition: it would have been enough to buy and outfit a fleet of eleven 104-gun battleships of the period. Seven hundred thousand pounds sterling was serious money, enough money that some men would do almost anything to get it.
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson,Gabrielle Hodson- Hirst
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson,Gabrielle Hodson- Hirst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3425719106