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Neptune's fortune : the billion-dollar shipwreck and the ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Sancton, Julian2026
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Roger Dooley wasn't looking for the San Jose. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive in the 1980s led him to the story of a lifetime - the journey of a ship that had gathered a mountain of riches from the New World for a long-awaited delivery to the King of Spain nearly three centuries earlier. But that ship, the galleon San Jose, never reached its destination. Instead, the Spanish treasure fleet was drawn into a pitched battle with British ships of war off the coast of Cartagena. When the smoke cleared, the San Jose had disappeared into the ocean. Though a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the San Jose. Dooley had little in the way of serious credentials, yet his tenacity and single-minded devotion to finding the San Jose led him to breakthroughs once thought impossible.
Main title:
Author:
Sancton, Julian, author
Imprint:
London : WH Allen, 2026.
Collation:
368 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780753560686 (hbk)
Dewey class:
910.916365910.9163
LC class:
G530.S2
Language:
English
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BRN:
4309637