The SecretA Treasure Hunt

The SecretA Treasure Hunt

The SecretA Treasure Hunt

The SecretA Treasure Hunt

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Overview

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 in 1982 dollars, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full-color paintings and verses of THE SECRET.

Are you smart enough?

THE SECRET: A TREASURE HUNT was published in 1982. The year before publication, the author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled 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 three 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, and the third was found in Boston in 2019 by a father and his two children.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940185825754
Publisher: J. Boylston & Company, Publishers
Publication date: 05/19/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 269,869
File size: 20 MB
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About the Author

Mr. Preiss is the co-author and producer of Bantam's bestselling trade paperback, Dragonworld, of which Maurice Sendak said, "Dragonworld goes far beyond the flashy pyrotechnics of contemporary fantasy and fantasy illustration." Preiss is considered to be one of the major figures in the renaissance of illustrated fiction in America. He is also the author of The Art of Leo and Diane Dillon, a retrospective of the two-time Caldecott Medal winning artists, and The Beach Boys, the authorized illustrated biography. He produced and edited Bantam's critically acclaimed trade paperback, The Dinosaurs, which was featured in Life magazine and was a selection of five book clubs in 1981. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University's Graduate School of Communications.
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