{"product_id":"the-last-great-fortune-9798257295393","title":"The Last Great Fortune","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lee Savage\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Military - Naval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomewhere beneath the sea lie fortunes vast enough to change the lives of the living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut treasure is never only treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Last Great Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e, Lee Savage takes readers far beyond the old fantasy of sunken gold and pirate legend into the real world of unfound and unfinished shipwrecks-where silver financed empires, lost cargoes became lawsuits, wrecks turned into graves, and the sea kept evidence history never fully recovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the doomed \u003cb\u003eSan Jos�\u003c\/b\u003e off Cartagena to \u003cb\u003eMerchant Royal\u003c\/b\u003e, England's \"El Dorado of the Seas,\" from the conquest-shadowed loss of \u003cb\u003eFlor de la Mar\u003c\/b\u003e to the shattered Spanish treasure fleets of \u003cb\u003e1715\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e1733\u003c\/b\u003e, this book follows the most powerful shipwreck stories still haunting the modern world. Along the way it moves through courtroom battles, deep-sea robotics, salvage obsession, colonial violence, museum ethics, and the unsettling truth that some of history's richest wrecks should never be raised at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book about glittering objects alone. It is a book about the systems that put those objects aboard ship in the first place-empire, war, labor, law, ambition, and greed-and about the people who died carrying them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompulsive, atmospheric, and historically grounded, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Great Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e asks a bigger question than \"How much is it worth?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt asks: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat was really lost?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd who gets to claim it now?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers of\u003c\/b\u003e maritime history, archaeology, treasure mysteries, empire history, legal nonfiction, and true stories where discovery only deepens the mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47966925127831,"sku":"9798257295393","price":2351.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798257295393.webp?v=1782912578","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-last-great-fortune-9798257295393","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}