Neptune's fortune the billion-dollar shipwreck and the ghosts of the Spanish empire

"Roger Dooley wasn't looking for the San José. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive led him to the story of a lifetime: the tale of a great eighteenth-century treasure ship loaded with riches from the New World and destined for Spain. But that ship, the galleon San J...

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Main Author: Sancton, Julian (Author)
Corporate Author: David Lindroth Inc (Cartographer)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, [2026]
Edition:First edition.
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245 1 0 |a Neptune's fortune :  |b the billion-dollar shipwreck and the ghosts of the Spanish empire /  |c Julian Sancton ; maps David Lindroth Inc. 
250 |a First edition. 
264 1 |a New York :  |b Crown, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group,  |c [2026] 
264 4 |c ©2026 
300 |a viii, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :  |b illustrations (some color), maps ;  |c 24 cm 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-358) and index. 
520 |a "Roger Dooley wasn't looking for the San José. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive led him to the story of a lifetime: the tale of a great eighteenth-century treasure ship loaded with riches from the New World and destined for Spain. But that ship, the galleon San José, met a darker fate. It was drawn into a pitched battle with British ships of war off the coast of Cartagena, and when the smoke cleared, the San José and its bounty had disappeared into the ocean, its coordinates lost to time. Though a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the [ship]. He had little in the way of serious credentials, yet his tenacity and single-minded devotion to finding and excavating the ship powered him across four decades, even as he became a man in exile from the country of his birth. As Dooley jousted with famous treasure hunters and well-funded competitors, he slowly homed in on a patch of sea that might contain a three-hundred-year-old shipwreck--or nothing at all."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
600 1 0 |a Dooley, Roger,  |d 1944- 
650 0 |a Shipwrecks  |z Colombia  |z Barú Island. 
650 0 |a Treasure troves  |z Colombia  |z Barú Island. 
650 0 |a Treasure hunting  |z Colombia  |z Barú Island. 
650 0 |a Marine archaeologists  |z Cuba  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714. 
655 7 |a Biographies.  |2 lcgft 
690 0 |a Aberg, Jerry tribute 
710 2 |a David Lindroth Inc.,  |e cartographer. 
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