Customer Reviews

The Mystery of the Oak Island Treasure: Two Hundred Years of Hope and Despair

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This smoothly written and absorbing little book (which seems to have been written for young adults) gets five stars from me. My co-reviewer implies that the author is somehow speculative where he should have stuck to the facts, but he doesn't explain this or give examples. As a non-expert on this fascinating subject, I didn't notice. The author certainly mentions and describes lots of speculative ideas, but hard facts about Oak Island are so thin on the ground that that's hardly surprising. Indeed, the island's whole history is so interwoven with theories (varying from the mundane to the wild) about the nature and whereabouts of the treasure that it's impossible to relate the story without mentioning them, even the wild ones. I felt that, if anything, such flights of fancy as this author has engaged in enhanced the story rather than detracted from it.

It was a quick read for me. In part because it wasn't a thick book in another part because it moved along quickly and was interesting. I would recommend this book to all those who are interested in the Oak Island mystery as it renders bits and pieces of previously unknown information(for me). Plus its only 7.95. It doesn't have all the important background information as other books on Oak Island and I believe the author expounds into areas he is not in a position to, hence I only gave it only 3 stars. If you are a skeptic of Oak Island, pass this one up go purchase a book that will add to your: if you can't smell it, or touch it, it doesn't exist, collection.

I had overheard someone talking about this island, and its story, and thought it interesting enough to purchase this book. I found that once I started reading I was not able to put it down, and finished it in an afternoon. It's a good read and a starting point for further research. Information about Oak Island is indeed thin: perhaps that adds to the intrigue.