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Author |
: Jane McIntosh |
Publisher |
: Carlton Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1847322999 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781847322999 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lost Treasures by : Jane McIntosh
Sunken cargo, hidden jewels, and buried gold have long been the subject of myths and real-life discoveries. "Lost Treasures" recounts the fascinating stories behind the endless quest for the world's missing fortunes. Fully illustrated and containing detailed maps, the book charts the original histories of treasures waiting to be found-continent by continent and ocean by ocean. Written by an experienced archaeologist and filled with more than 250 remarkable images of precious finds, "Lost Treasures" takes readers on a journey through time and around the globe in search of rumored riches and uncovered wealth.
Author |
: Carroll B. Colby |
Publisher |
: Sterling Publishing (NY) |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 1992-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 080698421X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806984216 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis World's Best Lost Treasure Stories by : Carroll B. Colby
Thirty-six brief accounts of lost treasures and the circumstances of their disappearance.
Author |
: Greg Hawk |
Publisher |
: Desert Roamer Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2020-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1734488409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781734488401 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Random Tangents: Embracing Adventures in Life by : Greg Hawk
As Hawk lies on the bottom of the pool paralyzed he realizes the gypsy was right again. How long can he hold his breath before someone notices? Will he be able to pull through this to finish the remaining predictions? Greg Hawk's memoir of a life's adventure takes a drastic turn at the end of a divorce as he listens to a gypsy lady in New Zealand predict things on the path ahead. Every obstacle on his path in life has put him on another tangent of learning and struggle, at times driving him to the edge of defeat. During these years, death seemed to be a constant companion as he witnessed it, as well as facing it personally. As a soldier, a husband, a divorcee, a partner of a successful construction business in Denver, owner of Fantasy Dive Charters in Australia, to being a treasure hunter in the mountains and desert of the Southwest, he faced many self-imposed challenges." Random Tangents is a celebration of a life well-lived, of obstacles overcome, of the triumph of spirit. And let's face it, sometimes a little luck."
Author |
: Patricia Fanthorpe |
Publisher |
: Dundurn |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 2009-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781770705081 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1770705082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Secrets of the World's Undiscovered Treasures by : Patricia Fanthorpe
Treasures of many kinds still lie hidden below crumbling castles and ruined monasteries; in macabre tombs; in subterranean labyrinths and sinister caverns. Many sunken treasures lie beneath the seas, oceans and lakes of the world. Vast stores of pirate gold are still hidden on many a real life treasure island such as Oak Island at Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Many treasures were looted, hidden and lost after the two World Wars - Hermann Goering, for example, one of most powerful leaders of Nazi Germany, is strongly suspected of hiding huge treasures at Veldenstein and Lake Zeller. This fascinating, expertly researched book brilliantly reveals all these unsolved mysteries. The final section covers useful ideas for treasure-seekers: the study of old maps and charts; coded messages; secret symbols; and intensive research into the lives and locations of those people through out history who probably in all certainty, had treasure to hide.
Author |
: C. B. Colby |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 95 |
Release |
: 1991-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 075676226X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780756762261 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis World's Best Lost Treasure Stories by : C. B. Colby
The treasure hunter in everyone will be captivated by these daring tales. The more than 30 mysterious mystifying stories in this collection tell dramatic tales of greed, despair, and madness that lost treasures have wrought upon their victims. And the treasures are still lost! Many of the stories in this book were told to the author by total strangers he met casually while tracking down others of the list. Some were sent to him anonymously. Others came from long forgotten diaries, family and town histories. Some were told to him by friends and neighbors. Are they all true? The people who reported them believed that they were. Whether the stories are true or not, you will have as much fun reading them as the author did tracking them down. B&W illustrations.
Author |
: Robert F. Marx |
Publisher |
: Firefly Books |
Total Pages |
: 126 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1552978729 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781552978726 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Treasure Lost at Sea by : Robert F. Marx
The vast hidden world of sunken treasure. With less than 2% of the world's ocean depths explored to date, a myriad of unimagined mysteries and treasures await discovery. Treasure Lost at Sea chronicles the excitement of underwater archaeology and search for treasure. The book recounts the major periods and geographic locations of shipwrecks. Chapters include: The classical world Scandinavian shipwrecks The age of discovery The Spanish galleons Bermuda, graveyard of ships Privateers, pirates and mutineers Deep-water shipwrecks (Bismarck, Titanic, and others) Port Royal: The sunken city The lively text details the potential treasure as well as the political turf wars, technological limitations, and forces of nature that threaten any mission's success. Humanity's long history of exploration, civilization, trade and war is littered with sunken vessels. Colorful and richly illustrated, Treasure Lost at Sea will inspire a new generation of underwater archaeologists.
Author |
: W.C. Jameson |
Publisher |
: Taylor Trade Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2006-10-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781589796324 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1589796322 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lost Treasures of American History by : W.C. Jameson
With his storyteller's gift, Jameson relates episodes from early explorers through the colonial period, the Civil War, the settling of the West, and the roaring 1920s. As a professional treasure hunter, he has followed the trails of many of the lost mines and buried treasures he describes. Sample treasures include Sir Francis Drake Treasure, Benedict Arnold Treasure, Lafayette's Sunken Riches, Maryland's Lost Silver Mine, The Wandering Confederate Treasury, Lost Treasure of the Gray Ghost, Oklahoma Outlaw Cache, and Lost Spanish Gold in the Sandia Mountains.
Author |
: Byron Preiss |
Publisher |
: ibooks |
Total Pages |
: 1 |
Release |
: 2016-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis The Secret by : Byron Preiss
The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.
Author |
: Carroll B. Colby |
Publisher |
: Sterling Publishing (NY) |
Total Pages |
: 102 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806984201 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806984209 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis World's Best Lost Treasure Stories by : Carroll B. Colby
Thirty-six brief accounts of lost treasures and the circumstances of their disappearance.
Author |
: Gary Kinder |
Publisher |
: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 526 |
Release |
: 2009-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781555847968 |
ISBN-13 |
: 155584796X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by : Gary Kinder
“Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People). September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century—until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck. Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth’s final frontier, providing “white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Entertainment Weekly “A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Post “What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you’re going to miss meals and a lot of sleep.” —Newsweek