{"product_id":"neptunes-fortune-the-billion-dollar-shipwreck-and-the-ghosts-of-the-spanish-empire-9780593594179","title":"Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Julian Sancton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Adventurers \u0026amp; Explorers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMadhouse at the End of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoger Dooley wasn't looking for the San Jos�. 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 Jos�, 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 Jos� and its bounty had disappeared into the ocean, its coordinates lost to time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the San Jos�. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeptune's Fortune\u003c\/i\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.","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46859684151447,"sku":"9780593594179","price":2199.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780593594179.webp?v=1769949847","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/neptunes-fortune-the-billion-dollar-shipwreck-and-the-ghosts-of-the-spanish-empire-9780593594179","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}