{"product_id":"9780753560693","title":"Neptune's Fortune","description":"Author:\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780753560693\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Feb 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 384\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMadhouse at the End of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpanish galleons groaning with gold, piratical English sea captains, swashbuckling treasure hunters with Hemingway beards, war, greed and adventure ... \u003ci\u003eNeptune's Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e is exactly the sort of book I want to read' -- \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMadhouse at the End of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoger Dooley wasn't looking for the \u003ci\u003eSan Jose. \u003c\/i\u003eBut 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 \u003ci\u003eSan Jose\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eSan Jose \u003c\/i\u003ehad disappeared into the ocean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the \u003ci\u003eSan Jose\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eSan Jose \u003c\/i\u003eled 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeptune's Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46729856450718,"sku":"UBD-9780753560693","price":36.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780753560693.jpg?v=1776651135","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780753560693","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}