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The Greatest Treasure-Hunting Stories Ever Told: Twenty-One Unforgettable Tales of Discovery

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"The Greatest Treasure-Hunting Stories Ever Told" is a collection of treasure seeking accounts drawn from factual and fictional accounts by some of history's greatest authors.

Among the factual accounts is that of Percy Fawcett, which reveals the motivation for his last and tragic expedition into the infamous Mato Grosso region of Brazil. Another fascinating account is M. Aurel Stein's machinations in acquiring portions of the Tun-Huang treasure in Chinese Turkestan in the early twentieth century. There are many other factual accounts detailing such treasures and the events surrounding them, such as, the Tutankhamen trove and the Aztec's treasures in relation to the Spanish invasion.

Bridging the gap between the factual and fictional is Malroux's fictionalized account of Cambodian temple carving theft, which is based on an actual theft that he perpetrated during his honeymoon in Cambodia.

Among the fictional accounts are such gems as excerpts from the works of H. Rider Haggard, Robert Lewis Stevenson, B. Traven, Jules Verne, and Edgar Allen Poe.

From Nimrud to New Braunfels there's adventure for everyone from armchair enthusiasts to those individuals that would actively seek still undiscovered treasure.

AS AN AVID READER TO TREAURE STORES, I FOUND THE BOOK TO BE DULL AND LACKING INTEREST. IT WAS EASY TO PUT DOWN AND FAILED IN THE CATAGORY OF EXCIMENT.