![]() ![]() ![]() I had not remembered it being as detailed. “It is wonderful to see it after all these years,” said Williams. The makers of a BBC documentary traced the owner of the golden hare to Egypt after an appeal on Radio 4. ![]() Today Williams was back in the public eye, reunited with his handmade amulet for the first time in three decades. The public response was so overwhelming - Williams received more than 100 letters a day for two years - that the publicity-shy author and illustrator became a virtual recluse. Kit Williams’ book sparked the nation’s biggest treasure hunt. It made for an unlikely national obsession: an 18-carat gold, jewel-encrusted hare buried somewhere in Britain, and the fiendishly complicated clues to its secret location contained in a lavishly illustrated children’s story. Public interest in the hunt for Kit Williams’ golden hare led to the sale of 2 million books, but left the author a virtual recluse. Unearthed Again - the Golden Hare that obsessed a Nationģ0 years later, author Kit Williams was reunited with the 18-carat gold hare, the treasure from his book, Masquerade. In full in Bamber Gascoigne’s Quest for the Golden Hare which is out of print. Masquerade prize was auctioned at Sothebys, ![]() Him Pounds 1,000 to do all the television Of letters pour in from treasure-hunters. ![]()
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