fortune-hunters

Armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe, she means to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and fortune-hunters through the ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the order of the Knights Templar was exterminated in the fourteenth century.

The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry: Book summary 2010

Nakedly ambitious, Bingham was a man of his age — an era when fortune-hunters ventured into remote parts of the world in search of "lost cities" and when the U.S. was making ever more inroads into Latin America.

Call Him Andean Jones Alvaro Vargas Llosa 2010

Nakedly ambitious, Bingham was a man of his age — an era when fortune-hunters ventured into remote parts of the world in search of "lost cities" and when the U.S. was making ever more inroads into Latin America.

Call Him Andean Jones Alvaro Vargas Llosa 2010

I am glad I read it (for Sam and the Bear of Bad News among many other reasons), but it is Dickens finding and hitting his stride, and although it may be the ‘first Victorian novel’ it is Dickens writing a Regency novel (it is set 14 years after Pride and Prejudice was published)- all mad-cap adventures and small-town politics and bucolic misadventures and aunts in high-waisted gowns running off with disreputable fortune-hunters.

January Short Book Reviews 2010

No doubt the creature would expect him to ward off fortune-hunters on her be half.

Gatlinburg 2010

I am glad I read it (for Sam and the Bear of Bad News among many other reasons), but it is Dickens finding and hitting his stride, and although it may be the ‘first Victorian novel’ it is Dickens writing a Regency novel (it is set 14 years after Pride and Prejudice was published)- all mad-cap adventures and small-town politics and bucolic misadventures and aunts in high-waisted gowns running off with disreputable fortune-hunters.

January Short Book Reviews 2010

Nakedly ambitious, Bingham was a man of his age — an era when fortune-hunters ventured into remote parts of the world in search of "lost cities" and when the U.S. was making ever more inroads into Latin America.

Call Him Andean Jones Alvaro Vargas Llosa 2010

I am glad I read it (for Sam and the Bear of Bad News among many other reasons), but it is Dickens finding and hitting his stride, and although it may be the ‘first Victorian novel’ it is Dickens writing a Regency novel (it is set 14 years after Pride and Prejudice was published)- all mad-cap adventures and small-town politics and bucolic misadventures and aunts in high-waisted gowns running off with disreputable fortune-hunters.

Illustration Friday: Propagate 2010

“What!” cried Mr Monckton, with some emotion, “are there not sharpers, fortune-hunters, sycophants, wretches of all sorts and denominations, who watch the approach of the rich and unwary, feed upon their inexperience, and prey upon their property?”

Cecilia 2008

Onboard is a well-traveled array of sailors, passengers and fortune-hunters who lend the novel an appealing polyglot air.

Sailing for Calcutta With Heavy Cargo 2008