Neptunes Fortune 9780753560686 Hardback

‘full of heroism, greed, piracy, sunken treasure and adventure on the high seas… it’s even more remarkable because it’s true’ ERIC SCHLOSSER New York Times bestselling author ofCommand and ControlandFast Food Nation’a splendid historical tale thats been researched meticulously and told exceptionally well’HAMPTON SIDES,New York Timesbestselling author of ‘The Wide Wide Sea”a rousing slice of narrative history, and a rip-roaring tale from bow to stern’TELEGRAPHThe riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk with over $1 billion in gold and silverand one mans obsessive quest to find itfrom theSunday Timesbestselling author ofMadhouse at the End of the EarthRoger Dooley wasnt looking for theSan Jose.But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive in the 1980s led him to the story of a lifetimethe journey of a ship that had gathered a mountain of riches from the New World for a long-awaited delivery to the King of Spain nearly three centuries earlier. But that ship, the galleonSan Jose, never reached its destination. Instead, the Spanish treasure fleet was drawn into a pitched battle with British ships of war off the coast of Cartagena. When the smoke cleared, theSan Josehad disappeared into the ocean.Though a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find theSan Jose. Half Cuban by birth, he lived a life that stretched from the ballfields of Brooklyn to the shores of Castros Havana at the dawn of revolution, where he would help birth a fledgling nations diving program and make films with Jacques Cousteau, before finding himself placed on an international watch list and barred from the United States. Dooley had little in the way of serious credentials, yet his tenacity and single-minded devotion to finding theSan Joseled him to breakthroughs once thought impossible. As he jousted with famous treasure hunters and well-funded competitors, Dooley ultimately homed in on a patch of sea that might contain a three-hundred-year-old shipwreckor nothing at all.Neptune’s Fortuneplunges 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 the decades-long quest to shine a light on the bounty at the bottom of the sea.’brilliantly written… if I were to choose one book to exemplify the fascination and folly of treasure-hunting, this would be it’ DAVID GIBBINS, author ofA History of the World in Twleve Shipwrecks’a thoroughly engrossing read’ SUSAN ORLEAN, bestselling author ofThe Orchid ThiefandThe Library Book’Sancton is a masterful storyteller… Readers are in for a rare treat’ SCOTT ANDERSON,New York Timesbestselling author ofLawrence in Arabia