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Buried Treasure
The road to gold. The facts about the 260 billion dollars in lost, buried, and missing treasures in the world - today!
- GenresAdventure
190 pages, Hardcover
First published November 12, 2013
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July 2, 2017
Ken Krippene is best-known as the author of a bunch of articles in men’s adventure magazines in the 50s and 60s. You know, the ones with gloriously lurid covers, like this :
The chapters in this book are in the same vein. The theme is lost treasure which you might have a chance of finding, sometimes by chance in your attic, but more often if you have the resources to mount a major expedition. But that’s really just a pretext to tell a bunch of entertaining stories, which I suspect owe as much to Krippene’s imagination as they do to real life.
Did Antonio Stradivarius ever name one of his violin’s Emilie after a beautiful young girl he heard sing in his youth? Was Captain Kidd betrayed by a hot wily blonde he captured in his line of work? Did Hitler found a secret organisation called The Seven Needles which helped him escape Germany after faking his own death?
Krippene portrays himself as a master treasure hunter with loads of inside information. Maybe he was. He did quite a bit of travelling apparently with his sexy pin-up model wife Jane Dolinger.
Some things stick with you from your childhood. We had a copy of this book. I don’t think I read it all back then, but I did read the chapter on The G-String Buccaneer.
Was there really a female pirate captain named Mary Anne Blythe, a girlfriend and protege of Blackbeard, who, along with a few other beauties, distracted her victims by parading around on deck nearly naked while her men stormed aboard their ships? I don’t know, but the idea appealed to me when I read about it in my youth. Wouldn’t this have made the perfect subject for a Roger Corman-style exploitation movie? Lots of nudity and violence in a story to appeal to red-blooded males and women’s libbers alike.
Maybe this early encounter with the idea of larcenous lusty ladies on the high seas in my youth helped to sow the seeds for one of my own erotic tales - Jolly Rogering.
All in all, Buried Treasure is a quick read with a couple of tales to make you laugh - The Golden Outhouse and The Fifty-Thousand-Dollar Postal Card - and plenty of others filled with adventure, mystery or suspense. I don’t think you’re going to be able to find a lost pirate treasure on your next holiday to the Bahamas, but this book might have you hitting the flea markets to uncover some of the treasure hidden between the covers of those old pulp magazines.
The chapters in this book are in the same vein. The theme is lost treasure which you might have a chance of finding, sometimes by chance in your attic, but more often if you have the resources to mount a major expedition. But that’s really just a pretext to tell a bunch of entertaining stories, which I suspect owe as much to Krippene’s imagination as they do to real life.
Did Antonio Stradivarius ever name one of his violin’s Emilie after a beautiful young girl he heard sing in his youth? Was Captain Kidd betrayed by a hot wily blonde he captured in his line of work? Did Hitler found a secret organisation called The Seven Needles which helped him escape Germany after faking his own death?
Krippene portrays himself as a master treasure hunter with loads of inside information. Maybe he was. He did quite a bit of travelling apparently with his sexy pin-up model wife Jane Dolinger.
Some things stick with you from your childhood. We had a copy of this book. I don’t think I read it all back then, but I did read the chapter on The G-String Buccaneer.
Was there really a female pirate captain named Mary Anne Blythe, a girlfriend and protege of Blackbeard, who, along with a few other beauties, distracted her victims by parading around on deck nearly naked while her men stormed aboard their ships? I don’t know, but the idea appealed to me when I read about it in my youth. Wouldn’t this have made the perfect subject for a Roger Corman-style exploitation movie? Lots of nudity and violence in a story to appeal to red-blooded males and women’s libbers alike.
Maybe this early encounter with the idea of larcenous lusty ladies on the high seas in my youth helped to sow the seeds for one of my own erotic tales - Jolly Rogering.
All in all, Buried Treasure is a quick read with a couple of tales to make you laugh - The Golden Outhouse and The Fifty-Thousand-Dollar Postal Card - and plenty of others filled with adventure, mystery or suspense. I don’t think you’re going to be able to find a lost pirate treasure on your next holiday to the Bahamas, but this book might have you hitting the flea markets to uncover some of the treasure hidden between the covers of those old pulp magazines.
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