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The Secret
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9781596874015
- Book Title
- Secret : a Treasure Hunt
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Ibooks, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Games & Activities
- Topic
- Logic & Brain Teasers, General, Role Playing & Fantasy
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 11.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 226 Pages
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The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People -- the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands -- fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full colour paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, "The Secret: A Treasure Hunt" was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had travelled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ibooks, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1596874015
ISBN-13
9781596874015
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219201106
Product Key Features
Book Title
Secret : a Treasure Hunt
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Logic & Brain Teasers, General, Role Playing & Fantasy
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Games & Activities
Number of Pages
226 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn6231.F283
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
818.5407
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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