Vintage Norman Island: True Tales about a Real Treasure Island with Pirates and Buried Treasures in the British Virgin Islands - Softcover

Sims, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1734386339 ISBN 13: 9781734386332

Publisher: Valerie Sims, 2023

Synopsis

Discover Norman Island's History of Piracy and Buried Treasure!

The pursuit of buried treasure is the stuff of legends and has fascinated people for centuries with its promise of gleaming gold doubloons and pieces-of-eight.

When a prominent St. Thomas merchant accumulates 1,500 acres in the Virgin Islands, members of his community suspect he has found his wealth in a bat-filled cave on Norman Island in the British Virgin Islands.

The island, after all, was the secret hiding place for Captain Owen Lloyd in 1750, when he and ten pirates buried 44 wooden chests of stolen silver, but Henry O. Creque stayed silent as the rumors swirled around town.

Did Creque really find a stash of precious coins in a dimly-lit cavern?

• Join the author, who is one of Creque's great-great-granddaughters, on this exciting adventure as she unravels the cryptic clues passed down in the her family.
• They may reveal the closely guarded secret her ancestor was trying to keep!
• Norman Island is thought to be the inspiration behind Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, Treasure Island.

Vintage Norman Island is a collection of fascinating stories about the hunt for hidden treasure.

They paint a vivid picture of the history of Norman Island when buccaneers and privateers used the island as their "treasure house."

About this title

About the Author

Valerie Sims grew up in the US Virgin Islands, a descendant with ten generations of family history in the US and British Virgin Islands. Her love of family history all started with wonderful conversations with her grandmother! Her entertaining tales of buried treasures, haunted houses, and out-of-body experiences sent shivers down Valerie's spine and sparked her life-long fascination with genealogy. In 2010, Valerie captured the top prize for the Deputy Governor's History Research Award in the British Virgin Islands for her research paper about her second great-grandfather. It was entitled, The Life of Henry O. Creque, 1858 to 1915, A Biography.In 2015, she began researching and writing for her blog VintageVirginIslands.com. Today, it hosts over 300 posts about the history of the US Virgin Islands, the Danish West Indies, and the British Virgin Islands. In 2020, she published her first book about the history of the island of St. John entitled, Vintage St. John, Discover St. John's History Through Seven Generations of Heartfelt Stories.Vintage Norman Island is her second family memoir. She hopes it will inspire others to document their family stories and keep their heritage alive. In 2023, she'll be offering a 6-week program to help family historians publish their family memoirs, sharing her tips and templates. It's called From Piles of Files to Published(TM). Learn more at PublishYourFamilyHistory.com and download a free guide to get started. Valerie and her husband currently make their home in the Caribbean, raising their two children with a watchful eye on their two rambunctious little dogs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Valerie Sims
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1734386339
• ISBN 13: 9781734386332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296