Metal Detecting: A Beginner's Guide: to Mastering the Greatest Hobby In the World

This is a great book for beginners. It's easy to read regardless of your level of technical expertise, and the relaxed way it's written conveys the information without being intimidating. As an engineer with a basic theoretical understanding of how metal detectors work I found the technical descriptions to be on the simple side, though accurate enough for the target audience. As a complete novice to the practical aspects of finding and digging up metal objects, however, I found the book very helpful. My metal detector arrived shortly after I finished reading this book and I found the techniques and suggestions I'd read to be practical and useful. There are some minor grammatical and spelling errors, but not enough to detract from the book's content. I might have deducted a star for its short length if I'd gotten the dead-tree edition, but at the Kindle price I thought it was worth every penny.

OK I have given this 4 stars because it is an easy read and the author was full of enthusiasm and would make a good coach for Detecting Camp if there is such a thing. He also included information about the best types of detectors for different types of detecting. I learned about probing, something I had not heard of before. The electrolysis portion was informative. The detecting rivers had some good tips. The Jewelry, preserving your relics and selling your finds information was helpful. The join the community links and links for research were cool too. If this book had been half the price It would have gotten 5 stars. It was informative but read more like an adventure novel instead of a guide to metal detecting. I am a beginner, If you have been doing longer than a year then this probably would not teach you much that you have not learned from your experience except maybe the Probing part, now that takes skill....

This book is a must-have for every beginner. As someone just getting into the scene, this book was extremely helpful and very detail oriented. I loved the big font and easy layout of the book too! I didn't realize how small some of the text was in other books I've been reading until I picked this up and realized how much easier it was on my eyes. The formatting on this book was just incredible - it's part of the reason it was so easy to get through the abundance of information. Learning the lingo from this book has been so much more helpful then I ever thought possible. I loved all the pictures in the book but particularly loved the ones that helped show the direction of the water when explaining what to look for when it comes to water flow. Fantastic! The diagrams and photos made it extremely easy to visual all the text they accompanied! Great book - highly recommended for beginners.

I've bought 3 detectors now... 1 for my brother and 2 for me. While I wouldn't say I'm disappointed with my purchases, I MIGHT have done things differently if I had read this first. I usually research any meaningful purchase on the internet - product reviews such as here on Amazon, forum posts, etc. Literally, whatever I can find... that's the issue, sometimes you don't know what it is that you don't know. Meaning you don't have enough info to ask, or search for, the right questions. Mark's book is a quick read and filled with really good information. A lot of it can be found on the internet -- IF you knew what to look for, but being new to the hobby, I didn't. This book taught me a lot. Also if you're going to do any beach hunting, you need to read this, and Mark's other book "Metal Detecting the Beach" - especially if you're going to do salt water. Of the 3 detector's I purchased, only 1 is really suitable for salt water beaches. I didn't know. There's more to this than I thought. Thanks, Mark, for the education!

My boyfriend wanted to try metal detecting, but he kept getting lost in the internet and the multiple conflicting sources. So I bought him this book and it’s wonderful for beginners like us! This book is a great introduction to metal detecting! It provided so much information. One of my favorite parts of the book was the simple definitions of the lingo. There were so many things I learned about just from this one chapter! The book also provided details of different kinds of metal detectors, from different brands to different uses for metal detectors. The book moves into where you should be metal detecting, the laws of property, to identifying your treasures to cleaning! It’s really a wonderful book, especially for a beginner.

This reads like a self published book, with some simple edit errors throughout the book. The diagrams and drawings are VERY simplistic, and the font is something like 12 or 14 point, so out of a "217" page manuscript, you can probably consider it more like 100 real world pages. That being said, the book produces as advertised. It is a very basic guide for beginners. I, being one of those, found the book to be good for basic understanding and getting the lingo, and general feel of the hobby. If I had 2 gripes it would be these: 1) the author users the term "treasure," both appropriately and inappropriately so much, I began to cringe every time he used it. 2) due to the general nature of the book, not too many specifics can be described, especially to settings on the detector; every detector is different, so author cannot focus on just one... finding a way to add more detail, especially in the discriminate, sensitivity and threshold areas (what it does, how it does it, effects of low and high settings, etc.) would flesh out the book a little more. There are also plenty more definitions out there... Anyway, good beginners book, but could be more...

Has everything u need to learn for metal detecting. Also has a brief chapter on which metal detector to chose from.

Es un buen libro para adquirir el vocabulario básico del detector de metales. Escrito en inglés sin ningún problema ya que esta escrito de forma sencilla. Un buen método para todo aquel que quiera iniciarse en la búsqueda de metales

Great book! So good I have ordered two more from the same author. New to the metal detecting hobby and I appreciate how he explained everything in an easy to understand manner. The author always reminds you to not rush and take your time. I been asked to go for walks, breathe the fresh air and go slowly ( due to health reasons) so I feel this might be just what the doctor ordered -no pun intended.

I found the way the book was written suited me, short informative facts that I found easy to understand, rather than large rambling paragraphs where you have to sort out the pertinant facts from the waffle.

I managed to read through this book very quickly, it's informative yet easy going, with a bit of wit included. It is really geared towards detecting in the USA though so not sure if some of the advice given (ie where you can search for treasure) would be different in the UK.