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Oak Island Gold by Crooker, William S. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Oak Island Gold about?
"Crooker, who is a good historian and also quite witty, tells a tale of folly and obsession" surrounding the legendary treasure off of Canada's east coast ( Booklist ). For over two centuries, the mysterious labyrinth of shafts and tunnels under Oak Island, a tiny island on Nova Scotia's South Shore, has been the scene of a frantic search by scores of treasure hunters from two continents. They believe that the shafts and intricate man-made flooding system hold the secret to a treasure of untold wealth. Although millions have been spent, bitter feuds have erupted, and men have died, the treasure has remained as elusive as the answers to who built the labyrinth, why and how it was constructed, and the nature of the treasure itself. Until now. In his second book on the Oak Island mystery, William Crooker meticulously sifts through the evidence unearthed by treasure hunters on the island, past and present. Then, armed with some starling new discoveries, he neatly fits the pieces together to offer a plausible solution to the baffling puzzle of Oak Island. "Crooker, an engineer and surveyor, presents both a thorough historical review of the various digs and a look at all the theories abo
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Crooker, William S.
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing, Limited
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781551090498
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (58 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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