Book description
In 1795 three boys discovered the top of an ancient shaft on
uninhabited Oak Island in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. The boys began to
dig, and what they uncovered started the world's greatest and strangest
treasure hunt but nobody knows what the treasure is. Two hundred years
of courage, back-breaking effort, ingenuity, and engineering skills have
failed to retrieve what is concealed there. Theories of what the
treasure could be include Captain Kidd's bloodstained pirate gold, an
army payroll left by the French or British military engineers, priceless
ancient manuscripts, the body of an Arif or other religious refugee
leader, or the lost treasure of the Templars. The Oak Island curse
prophesies that the treasure will not be found until seven men are dead
and the last oak has fallen. That last oak has already gone, and six
treasure hunters have been killed. After years of research, the authors
have finally solved the sinister riddle of Oak Island, but their answer
is challenging, controversial, and disturbing. Something beyond price
still lies waiting in the labyrinth.
Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe live in Cardiff, Wales. Lionel is the
host of the popular U. K. television program Fortean TV, while
Patricia serves as his agent, PR executive, and co-researcher. Their
other bestsellers from Dundurn include The Mysteries and Secrets of
the Templars and
Mysteries and Secrets of the Masons.
