DANIEL BARBARISI is the author of Dueling with Kings. He is currently a Senior Editor at The Athletic, after years as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal and The Providence Journal. He resides with his wife and two sons outside Boston, Massachusetts.
“Rousing . . . Barbarisi writes with gusto and portrays the
eccentrics he encounters with a candor . . . He can also make a
landscape come alive. I’ve read many descriptions of Yellowstone
geysers, but none more striking than his evocation of how runoff
from the Artemisia Geyser affects the immediate surroundings . . .
Barbarisi tells the story so well that you should resist any form
of peeking ahead and leave the matter in his capable hands.”
—Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post
“The idea of a years-long quest throughout the Rocky Mountains in
search of treasure represents competition of a different,
fascinating sort. Barbarisi’s exploration of the who and how and
why of those who hunted for the hidden treasure left by Forrest
Fenn confronts fascinating questions about the sometimes indistinct
realms of adventure and obsession.”
—The Boston Globe, “Summer Reading 2021”
“Chasing the Thrill leads the reader on an engaging armchair
treasure hunt, a welcome escape in these waning days of covid.
Daniel Barbarisi’s bold gamble — inserting himself at the story’s
center — pays off. The writer emerges as a sympathetic protagonist,
and his participation buys him entrée into a secretive and
mistrustful club. By the final chapters of Chasing the Thrill, we
share his wonder in watching the Fenn saga draw to an exhilarating
close.”
—Daniel de Visé, Washington Independent Review of Books
“Engaging . . . [Barbarisi] smartly shows how easy it is to get
caught up in gold fever. The more he follows the hunt, the more
he’s consumed by it. As a result, the reader also wants resolution
on what searchers call the ‘solve.’”
—Jeff Schulze, Fredericksburg Free Lance Star
“Chasing the Thrill lives where all the best stories reside, on
that thin edge between amazing and impossible. Daniel Barbarisi
plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search
of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous
art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the
quest. Thanks to Barbarisi’s skill, every page draws you deeper
into this no-man’s-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits.”
—Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run
“Chasing the Thrill swept me up from the start and pulled me into a
treasure hunt of surprising strangeness and danger—all
true!—written with an intoxicating mix of clear-eyed journalism and
down-the-rabbit-hole obsession, a riptide of a book right to the
unexpected event at the end. What more is there to want?”
—Michael Finkel, author of The Stranger in the Woods
“Chasing the Thrill is a fantastic tale made of all the best
ingredients: adventure, obsession, compulsion, extreme characters,
high stakes, big wilderness, and at its center: the race to find an
elusive hidden treasure. Dan Barbarisi tells this story from the
inside, as a participant swept up in a zany mystery. I devoured
this book in one sitting."
—Susan Casey, author of Voices in the Ocean
“This tale of the most consuming treasure hunt in modern American
history, and of the man who created it, is utterly captivating and
thoroughly entertaining. Daniel Barbarisi gives the reader a
satisfying sense of how deeply being part of a treasure
hunt—beginning with believing that there is a treasure to
hunt—summons the human spirit back to a faith most adults lost in
childhood. At the same time, he reminds us just how close that
faith is to madness.”
—Randall Sullivan, author of The Curse of Oak Island
“Dan Barbarisi has done a startling bit of metaphysical
gymnastics here. This is a story that pretends to be about one
group of people looking for one small hidden box of treasure when
in actuality it's about every human being who has ever yearned,
obsessed, believed, wanted or desired. It is at its core a profile
of hope itself, which makes it, oddly enough, a book about the
meaning of life.”
—Wright Thompson, author of Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine
Bourbon, and the Things That Last
“Daniel Barbarisi’s Chasing the Thrill is a fast-paced testament to
the extraordinary lengths some go for glory and adventure alike. In
Barbarisi’s hands, you feel you are really hunting for
treasure—hiking treacherous landscapes, decoding lines, moving
deeper into the unknown—and come to understand how modern myths are
born and take on a life of their own. This is a one-of-a-kind,
brilliantly reported story about risking one’s life and livelihood
to chase a dream, and the ways destiny and desire are two sides of
the same golden coin.”
—Kirk Wallace Johnson, author of The Feather Thief
"Captivating . . . Shot through with dramatic plot twists, colorful
personalities, and insights into the nature of obsession, this
rollicking account will appeal to fans of The Orchid Thief and Born
to Run.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred
“Mesmerizing . . . Barbarisi’s narrative splendidly captures the
timeless allure of buried treasure. Armchair adventurers will be
riveted right up to the suspenseful conclusion.”
—Booklist
“An engaging adventure story . . . A well-reported insider’s study
on the engrossing and alarming fervor a search can inspire.”
—Kirkus
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