[PDF] The General Grants Gold eBook

Author : Madelene Fergusson Allen
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1775590208

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The wreck in 1866 of the General Grant in the desolate sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands is one of the world’s great nautical mysteries, a story that still tantalises and thrills. When the ship was crushed in a cave beneath a sheer cliff face, a few crew members and a handful of passengers managed to escape in a lifeboat. For more than two years they lived a hand-to-mouth existence on a nearby island before they were rescued. This story is extraordinary in itself, but soon compelling legends spread that the ship had sunk with a fabulous hoard of gold from the Victorian goldfields. For 140 years, expeditions and bounty hunters have searched for the ship and her elusive cargo. In the relentless seas of the Auckland Islands, it has been a soul-destroying endeavour. Locating the vessel has been difficult enough; finding the gold has proved impossible – unless one of those early expeditions really did find it … In this book Madelene Ferguson Allen and Ken Scadden tell the full story of the voyage from Melbourne, the shipwreck, the plight of the castaways and the search for the gold. At this distance in time, separating the facts from the legends is difficult, but they have scrupulously researched the events of the shipwreck and examined every subsequent search for the gold. The story is more remarkable than fiction, a tale of heroes and cads, heartbreak and loss, hope and despair, hunger and greed. As it has bewitched so many in the past, so it will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.

Author : Madelene Ferguson Allen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1458779505

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This is the story of both the extraordinary shipwreck itself and the hoards of bounty hunters and adventurers that have ventured to find the General Grant's elusive cargo. This story is more remarkable than fiction; it is a tale of heroes and cads, heartbreak and loss, hope and despair, hunger and greed. As it has bewitched many in the past, so it will haunt you long after the last page is turned

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Publisher :
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 1927*
Category : Salvage
ISBN :

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An undated book describing the wreck in 1868 of the American ship "General Grant" in the Auckland Islands and the survival of some of the crew for over 6 months until they were rescued. The second part of the book describes the project to raise the vessel and recover the gold on board. This was filmed as it was done and this book appears to be intended to promote the film when it appeared in American movie theaters, as bound at the front is a coupon for one free admission to the movie. While totally undated the book seems, from internal evidence, to have been published in 1927.

Author : Christina Sanders
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2022
Category : New Zealand fiction
ISBN : 9781988595559

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"It's 1866 and the three-masted sailing ship General Grant is on the southern route from Melbourne to London, with gold from the diggings secreted in returning miners' hems and pockets. In the fog and the dark, the ship strikes the cliffs of the Auckland Islands, is sucked into a cave and wrecked. Only fourteen men make it ashore and one woman - Mrs Jewell. Stuck on a freezing and exposed island, the castaways have to work together to stay alive, but they're a disparate group with their own secrets to keep and their only officer is disabled by grief after losing his wife in the wreck. A woman is a burden they don't need. Meanwhile stories about the gold grow with the telling: who has it, where is it and how much went down with the ship. Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant is a vivid imagining of the story behind the enduring mystery of one of New Zealand's early shipwrecks."-- Provided by pub.

Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0805212337

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On December 17, 1862, just weeks before Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, General Grant issued what remains the most notorious anti-Jewish order by a government official in American history. His attempt to eliminate black marketeers by targeting for expulsion all Jews "as a class" from portions of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi unleashed a firestorm of controversy that made newspaper headlines and terrified and enraged the approximately 150,000 Jews then living in the United States, who feared the importation of European anti-Semitism onto American soil. Although the order was quickly rescinded by a horrified Abraham Lincoln, the scandal came back to haunt Grant when he ran for president in 1868. Never before had Jews become an issue in a presidential contest and never before had they been confronted so publicly with the question of how to balance their "American" and "Jewish" interests. Award-winning historian Jonathan D. Sarna gives us the first complete account of this little-known episode—including Grant's subsequent apology, his groundbreaking appointment of Jews to prominent positions in his administration, and his unprecedented visit to the land of Israel. Sarna sheds new light on one of our most enigmatic presidents, on the Jews of his day, and on the ongoing debate between ethnic loyalty and national loyalty that continues to roil American political and social discourse. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)

Author : Brian Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2020-10-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780473547936

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In 1866 the General Grant, a clipper carrying gold, came to grief on the cliffs of the Auckland Islands. Robbie a Southland farmer suspects that his uncle salvaged the gold. His obsession to find answers takes him down a dangerous path.