the thrill of the chase a memoir free pdf

But, anyway, he beat the odds and survived the cancer so the plan didn't materialise. He didn't care if it took hundreds of years before someone found it. He had the idea to take some of the treasure he'd accumulated in the business dealings and scavenging and hide them to create a modern day treasure hunt, and then die there with his treasure so that whoever found the treasure would also find his bones. The doctors told him the prognosis wasn't good. Then he got cancer and thought he was going to die.

It's a memoir by a quirky, charismatic and rascal of a man who grew up in nature in and around the Rocky Mountains (well western Texas, but they went to the Rockies for an extended stay every year), was a fighter pilot in Vietnam, and then became a self-made entrepreneur dealing arts and antiques (despite not really caring about the arts but had always loved scavenging for treasure and found the art business suited that interest) in New Mexico where he hobnobbed with politicians and assorted celebrities (Jackie O. Then, last year I heard the treasure had been found! What nerve for someone to go and do that before I ever got around to trying to! It gave me the belated push to finally order the book the entire hunt was announced in and read it, and while I might be a little late to the party of reading it now the hunt is over, I still really enjoyed it. Not enough to rush out and buy the book containing the clued poem and other hints (actually, anyone wanting to rush out and buy it would've had to rush out to a little bookstore in New Mexico, it being the only physical location it was sold, but I still could've rushed to the computer to order it sent to me), but enough to think about it off and on for a decade, and occasionally read up online on some others' adventures in trying to solve the puzzle and searching in person for the treasure.

So when I heard about Forrest Fenn's real hidden treasure, gosh, about ten years ago now I was enamoured.

Not enough to rush out and buy the book containing the clued poem and other hints (actually, anyone wanting to rush out and buy it would've had to rush out to a little bookstore in New Mexico, it being the only physical location it was sold, but I still could've rushed to the compu I've always loved adventure, since I was a little boy wanting to go explore the land where the wild things are. I've always loved adventure, since I was a little boy wanting to go explore the land where the wild things are.

The thrill of the chase a memoir free pdf