Neptune’s Fortune
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The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk
with over $1 billion in gold and silver—and one man’s obsessive
quest to find it—from the Sunday Times bestselling author of
Madhouse at the End of the EarthRoger Dooley wasn’t looking for the
San Jose. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a
Spanish archive in the 1980s led him to the story of a lifetime—the
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 galleon San 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, the San Jose had disappeared
into the ocean. Though a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely
candidate to find the San Jose.Half Cuban by birth, he lived a life
that stretched from the ballfields of Brooklyn to the shores of
Castro’s Havana at the dawn of revolution, where he would help
birth a fledgling nation’s 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 the San Jose led 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 shipwreck—or
nothing at all.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 the decades-long quest to shine a light on
the bounty at the bottom of the sea.
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Ebury Publishing ,
Julian Sancton
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Ebury Publishing,
Julian Sancton
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Slovart
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Slovart
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