David Grann
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English
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Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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English
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After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many convinced that the Amazon was...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed his journeys, but he repeatedly rescued his men from certain death, and...
5) Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Killers of the Flower Moon is now adapted for young readers.
This book is an essential resource for young readers to learn about the Reign of Terror against the Osage people—one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation...
This book is an essential resource for young readers to learn about the Reign of Terror against the Osage people—one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Vuelve el maestro del True Crime, David Grann, tras el x̌ito de Z, la ciudad perdida. Entre estas incre̕bles historias de cr̕menes reales, destaca ±El viejo y la pistola?, l͠tima pel̕cula protagonizada por Robert Redford. La incre̕ble historia del ladr̤n de bancos Forrest Tucker da t̕tulo a esta colecci̤n de cr̕menes reales, tres relatos en los que el periodista David Grann demuestra por qǔ es considerado el mejor escritor de no-ficci̤n...
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
A principios de la década de 1920, los miembros de la nación indígena de los Osage, en Oklahoma, se convirtieron en las personas más ricas del mundo. Tras descubrirse enormes depósitos de petróleo bajo su reserva, los Osage vivían en mansiones, vestían con pieles y joyas costosas, viajaban en automóviles con chofer y tenían sirvientes blancos. Pero pronto, los Osage comenzaron a desaparecer misteriosamente o a morir asesinados, uno tras...
8) Killers of the flower moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI : adapted for young readers
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Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Reign of Terror against the Osage people was one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes. As the Wild West was dying, someone was killing members of the Osage nation who had gotten rich off the oil under their land. Investigators who tried to uncover the truth were disappearing, but still J. Edgar Hoover asked a former Texas Ranger to work with the Osage to unravel the mystery.
1920s Oklahoma. The richest people per capita in the world...
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Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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The incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the twentieth century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
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