![]() ![]() The bells jingled and it sparkled in a way I had forgotten.” 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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