Walking the plank

Walking the Plank is the inside story of one of the greatest treasure scams of all time-and what happens to the journalist who tries to expose the scam when the victims are the most powerful media people in America. It's a true tale of real pirates, ancient and modern. It's a story of the eighties in Manhattan, and battling not just a knife-wielding treasure hunter, but Walter Cronkite, the New York Times and National Geographic. The only hope is to find the real treasure map. The LA Times calls Walking the Plank "hilarious...why they don't call it 'fool's gold' for nothing." The Boston Globe says it's "a scathing critique of how Barry Clifford financed and documented the underwater excavation of the pirate ship Whydah off Cape Cod." Archaeology magazine says Walking the Plank is "highly recommended," and Antiquities magazine says it's "required reading."Author Stephen Kiesling has written for the New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, and Outside. He's an Olympic oarsman from Yale and author of The Shell Game: Reflections on Rowing and the Pursuit of Excellence. The New York Times Book Review calls Kiesling "true blue." He is editor in chief of the FOLIO award-winning magazine Spirituality & Health.