Dear Samuel Clemens: Message In A Bottle - Softcover

Barnhouse, Randy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692990917 ISBN 13: 9780692990919

Publisher: Sea Dunes Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

"Dear Samuel Clemens" details the history surrounding the recoveries of treasure and artifacts at four American historical sites, along with the parallels, coincidences and facts that link them together. Randy connects a vintage, sunken, Mississippi riverboat at Cape Girardeau; the legendary Spanish shipwreck, Atocha, located near the Marquesas; the Mark Twain boyhood home at Hannibal, Missouri; and the 1715 Spanish treasure fleet shipwrecks off the "Treasure Coast" of Florida. Randy has worked all of these sites either as a treasure diver of an excavator. This book is comprised of sixty messages, duplicates of the same messages which he placed in sixty bottles. Each bottle was launched into the Mississippi River either at Hannibal or Cape Girardeau. In the bottled messages, Randy writes to and shares with Mark Twain what the historical sites have revealed to him as he takes the reader along on the journey. The remarkable ties between the world's greatest treasure hunter...Mel Fisher and America's most notable author...Samuel Clemens are at the core of these messages. The sites, histories, and revelations are uniquely delivered throughout this book, often in a deeply personal manner.

About this title

About the Author:

Randy Barnhouse is a retired teacher and has been a treasure hunter and finder for thirty-five years. His treasure hunting career began in 1985 when he was a member of the "Golden Crew" of Mel Fisher's Treasure Salvors, Inc. As a member of the "Golden Crew", Randy helped salvage the treasures and artifacts of the Spanish galleon, Nuestra Senora de Atocha and her sister ship, Santa Margarita. Randy has also dove on other shipwrecks such as the Spanish 1715 treasure-fleet which lies off shore of the "Treasure Coast" of Florida. He has also excavated historically important land sites such as the boyhood home of Samuel L. Clemens. Randy and his wife, Debra, reside along the Mississippi riverfront in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Currently you will find him working on historical projects, educational consulting and sailing the lakes of Missouri.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sea Dunes Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0692990917
• ISBN 13: 9780692990919
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272