by Robert Kurson
Treasure, Obsessions, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate ShipYou need to be obsessed by pirates and be a tough and resilient person with deep pockets, willing to invest a lot time and put family life on the back burner to track down sunken galleons.In “Pirate Hunters” treasure hunter Tracy Bowden...
Interesting read. I liked how he showed every phase of the operation to find the Golden Fleece. The team had to do historical research on the time period and the pirate Joseph Bannister. They did the search and dived to find artifacts and then had experts ascertain their time periods on the artifact...
My copy courtesy Random House/Net Galley - much thanks! Pirate Hunters covers both the search for a pirate flagship from the "golden age of piracy" (roughly 1650-1720), sunk off of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean in 1686, and the pasts of both the main searchers (from Vietnam to the fringe...
This was a pretty interesting story. I learned alot about diving & treasure hunting that I didn't know before but I almost just gave it 3 stars because there was a whole lot of redundancy in the writing which is my biggest pet peeve when reading a book. No one wants to hear the same thing told 5 dif...
I stumbled on this book while I was trying to find a book on the Amber Room (The Amber Room is a world-famous chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg Originally constructed in the 18th century in Pru...
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