The Book of Buried Treasure

Captain Kidd, the plate fleet of Vigo, the pirates’ hoard of Trinidad, the galleon of Tobermory Bay — the famous treasure stories, followed to the documents that either support them or quietly demolish them.

The World-Wide Hunt for Vanished Riches

7 pages in this part of The Book of Buried Treasure.

The World-Wide Hunt for Vanished Riches

THE WORLD-WIDE HUNT FOR VANISHED RIOHES THE language has no more boldly romantic words than pirate and galleon and the dullest imagination…

The World-Wide Hunt for Vanished Riches: Kidd

CAPTAIN KIDD IN FACT AND FICTION DOOMED to an infamy undeserved, his name reddened with crimes he never committed, and made wildly romantic…

The World-Wide Hunt for Vanished Riches: Stevenson

In English fiction there are three treasure stories of surpassing merit for ingenious contrivance and convincing illusion. These are…

The World-Wide Hunt for Vanished Riches: Livingston

CAPTAIN KIDD IN FACT AND FICTION 49 which his said crew shall, by such contract, have of such prizes, goods, merchandise and treasure, as…

The World-Wide Hunt for Vanished Riches: Capt

WILLIAM REX. WILLIAM THE THIRD, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc. To our…

The World-Wide Hunt for Vanished Riches: Island

That in or about the month of November, 1697, the Examinant came Boatswain of the ship Fidelia, Tempest Rogers, Commander, bound on a…

The World-Wide Hunt for Vanished Riches: Bellomont

In Delaware Bay Kidd bought stores, and five of the people of Lewes were thrown into jail by the Pennsylvania authorities for having traded…

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