Neptune's Fortune: The Billion Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghost of the Spanish Empire
New York: Crown, 2026. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing stated. Hardcover. 371 pp. with index, biography. Illustrated with color photos. 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. The "San Jose" was a famed 18th century ship loaded with a mountain of plundered riches from the New World and bound form the King of Spain. It never reached Spanish shores---it was drawn into a pitched battle with British warships in the Caribbean and when the smoke had cleared, the San Jose and its bounty had disappeared into the ocean, its coordinates lost to time. Cuban American archaeologist and filmmaker Dooley, working under authorization of Fidel Castro, was successful after 30 years of investigation, in finding the wreck in November 2015 when he and his team discovered a scattering of gold coins that had been sitting on the ocean floor since 1708. Fine / fine. Item #E37385
ISBN: 9780593594179
Price: $14.95