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Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt
Bottom of the pile
13
/100
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Readers
20/100Critics
7/100Scholars
Author:
Daniel Barbarisi
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
May 18, 2021
A full-throttle, first-person account of the treasure hunt created by eccentric millionaire art dealer â and, some would say, robber baron â Forrest Fenn that became the stuff of contemporary legend.
What The Reviewers Say
Barbarisi writes with gusto and portrays the eccentrics he encounters with a candor that never quite slips into mockery; he sums up Beep as 'a Renaissance man of the frivolous.' He can also make a landscape come alive.
Journalist Barbarisi spent several years researching and writing this mesmerizing account of a modern-day treasure hunt, which reveals a whole subculture of Indiana Jones types willing to travel across the country and invest life savings in the search for something special.
In this lively read, a journalist sheds objectivity and searches for riches alongside his subjects.
Reading Daniel Barbarisi’s Chasing the Thrill might feel a bit like watching a Discovery Channel documentary, but the book is quite a yarn. In fact, it’s an exhaustive account of one of the oddest episodes in the crowded annals of bizarro Americana.
