{"product_id":"neptunes-fortune-the-billion-dollar-shipwreck-and-the-ghosts-of-the-spanish-empire","title":"Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over $1 billion in gold and silver--and one man's obsessive quest to find it--from the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadhouse at the End of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Splendid . . . Sancton is an expert guide through eighteenth-century European geopolitics [and] modern marine archaeology.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRoger Dooley wasn't looking for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan José\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive led him to the story of a lifetime, the tale of a great eighteenth-century treasure ship loaded with riches from the New World and destined for Spain. But that ship, the galleon \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan José,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003emet a darker fate. It was drawn into a pitched battle with British ships of war off the coast of Cartagena, and when the smoke cleared, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan José\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and its bounty had disappeared into the ocean, its coordinates lost to time.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThough a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan José\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. He had little in the way of serious credentials, yet his tenacity and single-minded devotion to finding and excavating the ship powered him across four decades, even as he became a man in exile from the country of his birth. As Dooley jousted with famous treasure hunters and well-funded competitors, he slowly homed in on a patch of sea that might contain a three-hundred-year-old shipwreck--or nothing at all.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eNeptune's Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a thrilling adventure, taking readers from great naval battles on the high seas to the sun-soaked shores that nurtured history's most notorious treasure hunters, to the archives that held the secret keys to lost fortune on the ocean floor.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50578924372253,"sku":"9780593594179","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780593594179.jpg?v=1762278168","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/neptunes-fortune-the-billion-dollar-shipwreck-and-the-ghosts-of-the-spanish-empire","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}