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Neptune's Fortune [text (large print)] : The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire.
'Neptune's Fortune' is the 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 mans obsessive quest to find it. From the author of 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth'.
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- ISBN: 9798217169030
- Physical Description: 576 pages ; 2 x 15 cm
- Edition: Large print ed.
- Publisher: Canada : Diversified Publishing, 2026.
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| General Note: | CO |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries |
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The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over 1 billion dollars in gold and silverâand one manâs obsessive quest to find itâfrom the New York Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth
Roger Dooley wasnât looking for the San Joseâhe was looking for the galleon Mercedes. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive in the 1980s led him to the story of a lifetimeâthe journey of a ship that had gathered a mountain of plundered riches from the New World for a long-awaited delivery to the King of Spain. But that ship, the San Jose, never reached Spanish shores. Nearly three centuries earlier, somewhere miles off Cartegena, the Spanish armada was drawn into a pitched battle with British ships of war. When the smoke cleared, the San Jose had disappeared into the ocean, its precise location unknown and its decaying hull shrouded in darkness beyond the reach of divers.
Dooley was at once an unlikely candidate to find it, but also a singular figure. Half Cuban by birth, his life stretched from the ballfields of Brooklyn to the shores of Castroâs Havana at the dawn of revolution, where he would help birth a fledgling nationâs diving program and make films with the likes of Jacques Cousteau before finding himself placed on an international watch list and barred from the United States. A diver at heart, Dooley had little in the way of serious credentials, yet his tenacity and single-minded devotion to the science of ocean archeologyâand to finding the San Joseâled him to breakthroughs thought impossible, as he jousted with famous treasure hunters and well-funded competitors and ultimately homed in on a patch of sea that might contain a three hundred year old shipwreckâor nothing at all.Â
Neptune's Fortune plunges into a rarified world through the eyes of an idiosyncratic protagonist, one whose work would spark the hopes of presidents and make real the dreams of a nation. This tale of temerity and treasure is a one-of-a-kind story of a lost fortune and a decades-long quest to shine light on the bounty of gold and silver at the bottom of the sea.
