Metal Detecting: Treasure Hunting Bible for Beginners

by Thomas Gold

Metal Detecting. An Incredibly Informative and Detailed Guide. Perfect for Beginners.

Covering everything that those new to metal detecting need to know. You will get the enormous benefit of the author's vast knowledge and experience.

Easy to read, topics include:
Choosing a Metal Detector. This section takes you through the many varied features to look out for in a metal detector and helps you to work out what is important to you.
Equipment. Find out about the must have tools that every detectorist needs.
Hunting Locations. Discover tips on what makes a place good to go metal detecting.
How to Hunt. A practical guide to metal detecting with lots of essential and very useful tips.
Digging and recovering your treasure. Full of practical information and diagrams.
Settings. Learn how to maximize the effectiveness of your metal detector and make sure you are using the correct setting for each hunt.
Hunting Specific Locations. Tips and advice on metal detecting in very different and specialized locations.
Cleaning your Finds. Find out how each find can be cleaned in a safe way so as not to damage it.
Identifying your Finds. A useful section that will help you understand and identify what you have found.
Metal Detecting Accessories.
Logging and Research
Terminology. Helping you to talk the talk.
This really is a must have book for people with a passion for metal detecting. Order today and read tomorrow.

149 pages, Paperback

Published August 5, 2020

About the author

Tommy Gold is an Austrian-born American polymath and astrophysicist who has done pioneering work in cosmology, pulsars, and lunar science, informing the world that neutrons are unstable, with a mean lifetime of ten minutes.

Born in Vienna, Gold became a refugee from the Austrian Anschluss and gained his BA in 1942 from Cambridge University, England. He lectured there in physics from 1948 to 1952 before joining the Royal Greenwich Observatory as chief assistant to the Astronomer Royal. He moved to the United States in 1956, founding the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research at Cornell University and serving as its first director from 1959 to 1981, and as professor of astronomy from 1971 to 1986. He was also on the EASTEX committee.

In 1948, together with Hermann Bondi and Fred Hoyle, proposed the steady-state theory of the universe. In the late 1960s he correctly interpreted the newly-discovered pulsars in terms of rotating neutron stars (a proposal made independently by Franco Pacini).

He has won notable prizes in the sciences including:
John Frederick Lewis Award (1972)
Humboldt Prize (1979)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985)

Anthony Tucker of The Guardian said of Professor Gold, "Throughout his life he would dive into new territory to open up problems unseen by others – in biophysics, astrophysics, space engineering, or geophysics. Controversy followed him everywhere. Possessing profound scientific intuition and open-minded rigour, he usually ended up challenging the cherished assumptions of others and, to the discomfiture of the scientific establishment, often found them wanting. His stature and influence were international."