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Barcode30053003829069
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No910.9861 SANC
Title Neptune's fortune : the billion-dollar shipwreck and the ghosts of the Spanish Empire / Julian Sancton.
Author Sancton, Julian, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult 900-999
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003829069910.9861 SANC2/17/2026 Available

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Personal Name Sancton, Julian, author.
Title Statement Neptune's fortune : the billion-dollar shipwreck and the ghosts of the Spanish Empire / Julian Sancton.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Crown, [2026]
Physical Description viii, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Content Type cartographic image cri rdacontent
Content Type still image sti rdacontent
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary, Etc. "Roger Dooley wasn't looking for the San Josâe. 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 San Josâe, met 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 San Josâe and its bounty had disappeared into the ocean, its coordinates lost to time. Though a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the [ship]. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Dooley, Roger.
Subject-Meeting Name San Josâe (Galleon)
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Shipwrecks Colombia Barâu Island.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Treasure troves Colombia Barâu Island.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Marine archaeologists Biography. Cuba
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Treasure hunting Colombia Barâu Island.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714 Naval operations, Spanish.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714 Atlantic Ocean.

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