"Treasure!": a book recommendation

While the We Lost Our Gold hunt is being pursued in forums that are usually used for alternate reality games, We Lost Our Gold is really more like a true hunt for treasure: Just like pirates left a sequences of steps to follow to get to their hoard, so do the puppet pirates lay out a series of clues to be followed to figure out where their treasure is (hopefully!). And since the treasure is actually buried somewhere, the question of how to dig it up discreetly is identical to those of other hunters of treasure. You wouldn't want to have someone sneak up on you and grab your gold, would you?

These issues are covered in a book about a guy named Richard Knight who actually went in search of the treasure of Captain Kidd. Richard Knight's Treasure!: The True Story of His Extraordinary Quest for Captain Kidd's Cache relates how he looked at a treasure map that many others had looked at, and, after lots of research, figured out where the island pictured in the map actually was; how he managed to get to the island by himself; how he used a metal detector to find things long buried under the ground; what he actually found; and the other challenges he faced, being deep in enemy territory. It's a pretty amazing book. If you want the sense of what actual treasure hunting might be like, you might want to check this book out.