Thank you Tanya for bringing this interesting work to my attention! I
see that there are two copies that have been digitized and loaded into
the HathiTrust database (one held by U. Indiana, one by U. Michigan).
The latter was digitized in color and therefore preserves the color
plates included in the original.
To download the entire book as a PDF one must belong to one of the
universities that subscribe to HathiTrust, but members of the public can
access titles of this age (1894) on a page-by-page basis through
the website.
The U. Michigan version: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015004082379
The U. Indiana version: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.39000005861682
Best regards,
-Eric
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College of Letters and Sciences
Arizona State University
Series Editor, *Mining and Society*, University of Nevada Press
http://ericnystrom.org
Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>> On Sep 20, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Tanya <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> To this end I have been reading Mircea Eliade's The Forge and the Crucible,
>> which is most enlightening on the subject, particularly chapter 5, Rites and
>> Mysteries in Metallurgy. Eliade makes references to a book entitled La
>> tranvaux publics et les mines dans les traditions et les superstitions de
>> tous les pays by Paul Sebillot. I would like to read this myself but sadly
>> cannot find an English translation. Might anyone know of one, or even have
>> access to an unauthorised translation that hasn't been published?
> I am an unabashed believer that academic texts ought to be freely available and translatable.
>
> If all else fails, here’s a rough and ready solution: if you can get a copy of Sebillot, cut it off at the spine, feed it through a scanner into PDF and then into one of the translation services such as Google, you ought to be able to have a reasonable facsimile of the original in English. I have had similar problems with translating Hassenfratz La Siderotechnie into English as my 4 years of high school french is in no way capable of handling early 19th century techno-French.
>
> Lyle Browning, RPA
>
>
>>
>> On a similar vein (sorry!) J. Frank Dobie's classic Coronado's Children:
>> Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasure in the Old Southwest (originally
>> published in the UK as Lost Mines of the Old West) is now available as an
>> Epub and as a Kindle (it's cheaper on Google Play). As well as a host of old
>> mine and treasure seeking stories it includes some interesting details of
>> various pamphlets etc that Dobie collected on such subjects as engaging
>> "Mephistopheles" as a guide to mineral riches - the usual nonsense! Most
>> entertaining. Hopefully other Dobie classics will follow onto e-reader.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Tanya
>>
>>
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