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New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1972. Book. Illus. by Charles Attebery;. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. (xii) 263 pp. Personalized inscription by Edward Rowe Snow on the front free endpaper. Blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine. Light chipping on the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around the edges; price intact; aside from the author's inscription, no interior markings. Dj art by Charles Attebery. The Chapters are: PART ONE: GHOSTS: New Haven's Ship in the Sky; The Phantom Fiddle; A Brother's Warning; Ghosts of Annapolis; Burr's House of Misfortune; Ghosts at Minot's Light; Hawkington's Ghost; The Children's Ghosts; A Ghost's Search; The Miracle of Le Bourdais. PART TWO: GALES: The Enigma Capsizes; The Life-Saving Service; Cape Cod Wrecks; A Horrible Ending; The Name of Nye; The Crime of Ansell Nickerson; The Wadena Disaster; Wrecks Around Portland Maine; The Hurricane of 1972. PART THREE: GOLD: Le Chameau; Sable…
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GHOSTS, GALES, AND GOLD
by Snow, Edward Rowe
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GOLD! GOLD - A Beginner's Handbook: How to Prospect for Gold
by Petralia, Joseph F.
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Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia: Hancock House Publishers, 1981. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 112 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and drawings. The Contents are: In the Beginning: The King of Money; Gold: Its Nature; Gold Fever; The Rush Had Begun; The Fever Spreads; Mining Life; The Motherlode. The Pot at the End of the Rainbow: Where to Begin Your Search; In Short; Why It Is Where It Is; Its Heft Is the Main Clue; Images: A Nugget's Travels; Learn to Read the Stream; Placer Paydirt; Prospecting for Quartz Veins. Putting Together Your Grubstake: Prospecting Gear. Methods Then and Now: How to Pan; Gold Pan Sieve; The Sniffer; Dry Placer Operations; Operation of a Sluice; Clean-up; Rocker Box; Long Tom; Hydraulic Concentrator; Dredges; Metal Detectors. Crescent of Gold: Amalgamation; Staking Your Claim. Head for the Hills.…
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A HUNDRED YEARS OF REMORSE - When Treasure Hunting Becomes a Spiritual Odyssey
by Robillard, Marcel
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Laval, Quebec: Les Publications Modus Vivendi, 2002. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 237 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. The adventures of a treasure hunting scuba diver off the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador. While exploring more than 400 ship wrecks, he discovered the SS Anglo Saxon, a commercial vessel that sank in 1863, killing 239 people and leaving behind a fortune in gold and coins....
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THE MYSTERY OF THE OAK ISLAND TREASURE - Two Hundred Years of Hope and Despair
by Reynolds, Mark
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Canmore, Alberta: Altitude Publishing Canada, 2005. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Second Printing. 8vo. 123 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams. The Contents are: Prologue; Discovery; The Booby Trap; The Flood Tunnel; The Curse Strikes; The Cave-in Pit; The Parchment; Controversy; Grails and Ghosts; Death on Oak Island; and Battle Lines; followed by an epilogue and Further Reading..
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OAK ISLAND GOLD - Startling New Discoveries in the World's Most Famous Treasure Hunt
by Crooker, William S.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia: Nimbus Publishing, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. (ix) 221 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams. The Chapters are: The Mystery Begins; Thwarted; The Inscribed Stone; The Discovery of Oak Casks; The Artificial Beach; Captain Kidd and Other Suspects; The Bottom Falls Out of the Money Pit; Seaching for Lost Casks; The Cave-in-pit; The Hidden Cement Chamber; Non-pirate Treasure Bearers; Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fascination; Oak Island Folklore; Legendary Maps; The Show Goes On; The Stone Triangle; Tragedy Strikes; Nuking the Island; Treasure of Not; A Parallel Search; The Christian Cross; The Templar Speculations; and Who; followed by an epilogue and a bibliography. ..
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THE PIRATE PRINCE - Discovering the Priceless Treasures of the Sunken Ship Whydah
by Clifford, Barry (with Peter Turchi)
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 221 pp. Quarter-bound in red cloth on blue boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; illustrated with colour and black and white plates and a chart. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. The Contents are: Prologue: Panama; The Legend; Cape Cod; Hunting Down the Whydah; Treasure Fever; Claim Jumpers; Rats, Bats, and Mutiny; First Strike; Squalls; The Proof; Telling the Tale; and Appendix: The Treasure; followed by an index..
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SALVAGE OF THE BIRKENHEAD
by Kayle, Allan
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Johannesburg, South Africa: Southern Book Publishers, 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 151 pp. Gray boards lettered in white on the spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with colour plates, black and white photographs and diagrams. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. HMS Birkenhead was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy. She was designed as a steam frigate, but was converted to a troopship before being commissioned. The Chapters are: A Tradition Is Born; Discovering a Legend; Seeking for More Knowledge; Getting Closer; Birkenhead Visited; Getting Ready to Work; A Time of Strife; The Salvage Begins; Strife, Vulcan and Wine; Birkenhead Revisited; Reconstructing the Disaster; and The Third Expedition; followed by an epilogue, Birkenhead Anecdotes and an appendix: HMS Birkenhead Artefact Register in Grid Sequence..
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SEA AND ISLANDS
by Innes, Hammond
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London: Collins, 1967. Book. Illus. by Frank Francis;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 288 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around the edges; price clipped; no interior markings. Dj by Frank Francis. Sailing with the great British novelist in his boat, the Mary Deare, not to be too confused with his novel, The Mary Deare, also known as The Wreck of the Mary Deare. The Isles of Greece... from Norway down to the Bay of Biscay, the Western Isles, the Indian Ocean, a treasure story in Nova Scotia - Oak Island - they are all here. The Contents are: Part One: The Sea: Introduction; Dismasted; Rock-Hopping in Scandanavia; Three Thousand Miles to Malta; The Aegean; Odysseus's Sea; To the Golden Horn. Part Two: The Islands: Introduction; Dalmatia; The Danish Islands; The Breton Coast; The Western Isles; Treasure in the Maritimes - Oak Island; and Addu Atoll..
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SHIP OF GOLD - in the Deep Blue Sea
by Kinder, Gary
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Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1999. Book. Illus. by J. Childs;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xvi) 536 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Frontis map and diagrams. The cover features The Sinking of the Central America - an 1857 lithograph by J. Childs of Philadelphia, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The story of the sidewheel steamer SS Central America, sometimes called the Ship of Gold, which sank in 1857 during a hurricane off the Carolina coast, and in the 1980s became the object of a feverish hunt by treasure seekers. The Chapters are: Ship of Gold; Tommy; and The Deep Blue Sea; followed by an epilogue and an index..
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