The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt by Sullivan, Randall

The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802148278)

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The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt by Sullivan, Randall

The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt

$18.00
The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt by Sullivan, Randall

The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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In The Curse of Oak Island, longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan explored the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of people who tried and failed to unlock its secrets. Drawing on his exclusive access to Marty and Rick Lagina, stars of the History Channel's television show The Curse of Oak Island, Sullivan delivers an up to the minute chronicle of their ongoing search for the truth.

In 1795, a teenager discovered a mysterious circular depression in the ground on Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, and ignited rumors of buried treasure. Early excavators uncovered a clay-lined shaft containing layers of soil interspersed with wooden platforms, but when they reached a depth of ninety feet, water poured into the shaft and made further digging impossible.

Since then the mystery of Oak Island's "Money Pit" has enthralled generations of treasure hunters, including a Boston insurance salesman whose obsession ruined him; young Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and film star Errol Flynn. Perplexing discoveries have ignited explorers' imaginations: a flat stone inscribed in code; a flood tunnel draining from a man-made beach; a torn scrap of parchment; stone markers forming a huge cross. Swaths of the island were bulldozed looking for answers; excavation attempts have claimed two lives. Theories abound as to what's hidden on Oak Island. Could it be pirates' treasure or Marie Antoinette's lost jewels? Or perhaps the Holy Grail or proof of the identity of the true author of Shakespeare's plays?

In this rich, fascinating account, Sullivan takes readers along as the Lagina brothers mount the most comprehensive effort yet to crack the mystery, and chronicles the incredible history of the "curse" of Oak Island, where for two centuries dreams of buried treasure have led intrepid treasure hunters to sacrifice everything.



Author: Randall Sullivan
ISBN-10: 0802148271
ISBN-13: 9780802148278
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2020
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.30d
By Randall Sullivan
By Randall Sullivan
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RANDALL SULLIVAN was a contributing editor to Rolling Stone for over twenty years. His writing has also appeared in Esquire, Wired, Outside, Men's Journal, The Washington Post, and the Guardian. Sullivan is the author of The Price of Experience; LAbyrinth, which is the basis for the forthcoming feature film City of Lies; The Miracle Detective, the book that inspired the television show The Miracle Detectives, which Sullivan co-hosted and which premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in January 2011; and Untouchable. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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