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Subject(s)

• Treasure troves—Anecdotes [Browse]
• Adventure stories [Browse]
• Treasure troves—Fiction [Browse]

Related name

• Elliott, Charles, 1930- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Anecdotes [Browse]
• Short stories [Browse]

Summary note

A rich trove of twenty-one classic stories that reveal the true wonder of hunting for treasure

Contents

• Treasure in a temple / André Malraux
• The lost San Saba Mine / J. Frank Dobie
• The gold bug / Edgar Allan Poe
• The discovery of Nineveh / Austen Henry Layard
• Benedict Mol and the Schatz of Compostella / George Borrow
• The tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen / Howard Carter
• A search in the Tower / Samuel Pepys
• Captain Phips and the Spanish wreck / Cotton Mather
• The Tun-Huang treasure / M. Aurel Stein
• Under Vigo Bay / Jules Verne
• Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
• Exploration Fawcett / P.H. Fawcett
• The treasure / Sholem Aleichem
• A painted stone / John L. Stephens
• Solomon's treasure chamber / H. Rider Haggard
• Montezuma's gold / Bernal Diaz del Castillo
• The treasure of the Sierra Madre / B. Traven
• The lost Magato Trail, the skeleton, and the diamond bags / Hedley A. Chilvers
• The salvage of the Laurentic treasure / Pierre de Lotil and Jean Rivoire
• The treasure of "El Chato" Nevárez / Arthur L. Campa
• The secret of the ebony cabinet / Richard D. Altick.

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ISBN

• 9781493069590 ((paperback))
• 1493069594 ((paperback))
• 9781585746835 ((cloth))
• 1585746835 ((cloth))

LCCN

2003273956

OCLC

1344442629

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