Neptune's Fortune

Julian Sancton

Roger Dooley wasn't looking for the San Jose. But 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 San Jose, 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 San Jose had disappeared into the ocean. Though a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the San Jose. Dooley had little in the way of serious credentials, yet his tenacity and single-minded devotion to finding the San Jose led him to breakthroughs once thought impossible.

Author(s): Sancton, Julian
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 29/01/2026
Pagination: 368 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: WH Allen
Published By: WH Allen
Book Classification: True stories: discovery / historical / scientific|Maritime history|Colonialism & imperialism|Colonialism & imperialism
Dimensions: 240x162x34
Weight: 631
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780753560686