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Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire

by Julian Sancton

A lost galleon and the search for its treasure

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A lost galleon and the search for its treasure

Julian Sancton’s account centers on the San José, a Spanish galleon that sank off Colombia carrying gold and silver valued in the description at more than $1 billion. Alongside the shipwreck is the story of one man’s determined search for it, placing the hunt in the longer shadow of the Spanish Empire. The book brings together maritime loss, buried wealth, and the history surrounding a legendary wreck.

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Readers interested in shipwrecks and marine treasure hunts
Readers drawn to exploration and Spanish imperial history
Readers interested in biographies of adventurers and explorers

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Shipwrecks and treasureExplorationSpanish EmpireMarine archaeology

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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 man's obsessive quest to find it--from the New York Times bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Splendid . . . Sancton is an expert guide through eighteenth-century European geopolitics [and] modern marine archaeology."--The Wall Street Journal

Roger Dooley wasn't looking for the San Jos

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