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The Hunt for Amazing Treasures

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Some really great stories here of the kinds of finds we'd all like to make. Similiar to the TV show but goes into more detail about how the discoveries unfolded.The kind of book you can read over and over.

ISBN 0965004302 - If you're looking for a book that parallels the TV series, this is - and isn't - it. The stories inside are probably much more watchable than they are readable, and the feeling the back cover gives (that "this could happen to you!") is mostly inane.

Several short stories about found treasures that range from an old manuscript to treasures on long-ago sunken ships. The unique-ness factor wears very thin when the reader sees how many of these "treasure-hunters" ARE treasure hunters: salvage is their job, their source of income, so it is no surprise that they find such things. Many even have ties to one another, removing the randomness by another step.

There are a couple of "regular folk" stories and they're good, they're just not good enough to make the book anything more than average. More info on most of the stories within the book can be found online - free.

- AnnaLovesBooks

If you love treasure and money and gold and diamonds and jewelry and the people who find these things, then this book is for you.

If you enjoy rarities with an interesting back story, you will be disappointed.

While there were chapters about each, there were many more chapters about the former than the latter, sigh.