The Dreaming Treasure

A young couple travels by car around a lake in Marshland, within the Portobello coast.The tour they perform brings them several memoirs about an ancient treasure, supposedly brought there by the Normans when founding a colony in Murtoyland, a small town on the edge of lake Avia. The treasure hunt begins guided by some old maps the protagonists carry with them. Although, will they ever reach such a treasure? NOTICE: Port Obal is the name of an ancient Phoenician port that is thought to have been situated on the northern banks of lake Avia, also known as Ria or the Haff. In this narrative many names of places like villages, towns and cities, are used but only a few of them are coincident with the current or original name. Merging Past with Present, the narrator makes the reader watching to ancient historic scenes such as the invasion of Murtoyland by the Normans, who left forgotten treasures in those territories, and presents the readers with a brief visit to the ruins of the ancient Fort of Car Regal and to the lost giant Towers of the Ria. The Marshland islands are a grateful stopover to the narrator and his girlfriend Michaela, once it allows them to describe the animal and plant biodiversity on these Islands that currently proliferate through the Haff due to increasing council drainage interventions that are the source and the knot of discord generated by different political ideologies in Port Obal and Aviarium cities. Nevertheless the treasure left by the Normans is still there, where the Normans left it, we are to assure you. Question is: Who will be the lucky one to find this Norman Treasure?

A bottle swallowing mysterious tresures adrift in the sea. Golden doubloons and a map pointing to a deserted island. A pirate crew seeks out a hidden lair filled with riches while the mapmaker's hand rots away. What will they find? Easy plunder? A marooned sailor desperate for escape? Dreams of treasure lure the pirates closer to the ultimate prize, but will greed turn a mother's wish for her child into a living nightmare?

"This book was originally published by the Department of the Classics, Harvard University, in their series Cultural Politics, Socioaesthetics, Beginnings"

The journey begins with the story of the Aborigine dreaming into being and continues with references to Native American, Asian, Christian, and Celtic cosmology as a means of uncovering the genesis of ones own creation story. What is The Dragons Treasure? Walk with the author along a lifetime of twisting paths that weave a story through myth, poetry, dreams, thought experiments, personal reflection, and history to bring to light the underworld of the unconscious. The author tries to put the indescribable into words, so that the reader will learn the true meaning of magic in their life. They will also discover the formula for becoming a wizard in their universe through a thoughtful reading of waking and sleeping dream symbols. By the last page, the reader will have discovered the Treasure, and become an active participant in his or her own creation story.

Rose Walker was a vortex, once. And as a vortex, she draws dreams to herself…and she is drawn to them. And it’s a good thing, too, because Dora, Matthew, and Abel are in well over their heads in the waking world-a world that is slowly destroying itself, as Wan’s plans for the collective unconscious of humanity have come to pass!

W.C. Jameson was an active treasure hunter for more than fifty years. He has fallen from cliffs, had ropes break during climbs, been caught in mine shaft cave-ins, contended with flash floods, been shot at, watched men die, and had to deal with rattlesnakes, water moccasins, scorpions, and poisonous centipedes. He has fled for his life from park rangers, policemen, landowners, competitors, corporate mercenaries, and drug runners. He has also discovered enough treasure to pay for his own house and finance his and his children’s education. With his enigmatic treasure-hunter partners, Slade, Stanley, and Poet, Jameson's stories are worthy of an Indiana Jones film—except that they are all true.

"In this searching biography of the writer’s imagination, Mary Gaitskill excavates her own novels, revealing their origins and obsessions, the personal and societal pressures that formed them, and the life story hidden between their pages. Using the techniques of collage, The Devil's Treasure splices fiction together with commentary and personal history, and with the fairy tale that gives the book its title, about a little girl who ventures into Hell through a suburban trapdoor." -- Publisher's website.