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review Î The Golden Dream ´ eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF Ion had Ned Sinton beheld a scene so wonderful as that which now lay spread out before him We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades and therefore have not been accessible to the general public The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature and our view is that this is a significant literary work which deserves t. A great adventure story during the time of gold being discovered in California Starts in England as a young man sails to California Some adventures at sea but most are in California and in the gold fields Great close up and personal stories of what it was really like then but Ballantyne also has his touch of God and living the life of God even in the wilds And he also touches upon the attachment of gold and the ability of some to let go of that attachment even in the middle of the gold fever It was nice to step back from fatasy books into a well grounded book of reality in a early part of our history

review Î The Golden Dream ´ eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF O be brought back into print after many decades The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works To ensure a high uality product each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. This book was a slow start and mostly uninteresting It was certainly not what I was hoping it would be

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review Î The Golden Dream ´ eBook, ePUB or Kindle PDF The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West by R M Robert Michael Ballantyne The Cause of the Whole Affair Ned Sinton gazed at the scene before him with indescribable amazement He had often witnessed strange things in the course of his short though cheuered life but he had never seen anything like this Many a dream of the most extravagant nature had surrounded his pillow with creatures of curious form and scenes of magic beauty but never before either by actual observation or in nightly vis. Gold fever worldwide in the middle of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth Century s often reached epidemic proportions and often with as devastating effect of any plague As to be expected in a gold rush you have winner and losers Losers are the vast majority but the least heard or remembered Ned a youthful Englishman is smitten with the recent news of gold in California He dreams about nothing else Fate smiles on Ned and he is offered the opportunity to go to California Life in and around the gold fields is both hard and expensive The Golden Dream tells a vivid and realistic story of life and conditions during the California gold rush Published a mere twelve years after gold was discovered at Sutter s Mill in Coloma California the Scottish born Robert M Ballantyne put the times to paper before time blurred the details Ballantyne specialized in books for boys and this one is one of his best