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True raiders : the untold story of the 1909 expedition to find the legendary Ark of the Covenant Cover Image Book Book
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True raiders : the untold story of the 1909 expedition to find the legendary Ark of the Covenant / Brad Ricca.

Ricca, Brad, (author.).

Summary:
"True Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca. This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called "most beautiful woman in the world," headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This amazing tale not only inspired the blockbuster film Raiders of the Lost Ark but stands on its own as an incredible story of adventure and mystery, though it has been almost completely forgotten today. In 1908, Monty is approached by a strange Finnish scholar named Valter Juvelius who claims to have discovered a secret code in the Bible that reveals the location of the Ark. Monty assembles a ragtag group of blueblood adventurers, a renowned psychic, and a Franciscan father, to engage in a secret excavation just outside the city walls of Jerusalem. Using recently uncovered records from the original expedition and several newly translated sources, True Raider is the first retelling of this group's adventures- in the space between fact and faith, science and romance"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250273604
  • ISBN: 1250273609
  • Physical Description: xii, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2021]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-340) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The key -- The cipher -- Underground -- The king in copper -- Raiders -- A black star -- Epilogue.

Search for related items by subject

Subject: Parker Expedition (1909-1911) > History.
Morley, Montagu Parker, Earl of, 1878-1962.
ʻIr Daṿid (Jerusalem) > Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Jerusalem.
Jerusalem > Antiquities.
Ark of the Covenant.

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  • 9 of 9 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library 933.442 RICCA (Text) 50686016141843 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Bethel Tulpehocken Public Library 933.442 RIC (Text) 33249024481271 Non-fiction Available -
Lower Macungie Library 933.442 RIC (Text) 33400001534299 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Mason-Dixon Public Library Adults 933 RIC Nonfiction (Text) 34262000765244 Main Room Available -
Public Library of Catasauqua 933.442 RIC (Text) 70000000238282 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main 933.442 Ric (Text) 33223008715921 Non-fiction Available -
Trone Memorial Library (East Berlin) 933.442 RICCA (Text)
Endowment: Knud Hermansen Named Endowment, 2021
35740635798622 Nonfiction Available -
Bethlehem Coolidge Branch 933 (Text) 33062009508475 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Clymer Library 933.44 RIC (Text) 32596000491455 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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