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 enlarge | Author: Dave Horner
Publisher: Sheridan House
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 103364
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 295
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 1574090844
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.452
EAN: 9781574090840
ASIN: 1574090844
Publication Date: October 1999
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A well researched and historically informative work October 25, 1999
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
A well researched and historically informative work about two 17th-century Spanish treasure galleons, their tragic history and fate, and the story of the modern-day treasure hunters who found and salvaged them. Dave Horner did an excellent job in researching the background history of the two vessels in Spanish archival repositories, and writes passionately yet objectively about the men who lived and died on the high seas in their futile attempts to bring New World riches back to Spain. Horner also writes extensively on the modern-day saga of the finding and salvage of the two wrecks. The story told is one of intrigues, greed and deceit. Tragic as it may seem to some, one cannot help but smile as the events surrounding the search and discovery of the Jesus Maria de la Limpia Concepcion, a.k.a. la Capitana, unfold. Set in Virginia, Florida and Ecuador, there are no clear winners, and Horner aptly entitles one of his chapters "Treasure is Trouble", something befitting the 17th-century Spaniards who met a tragic fate on the waters of Ecuador and the Bahamas,as well as the modern-day treasure hunters whose greed has brought them nothing but "trouble". A lesson to be learned... again.
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