Atlas
of Shipwrecks & Treasure
by Nigel Pickford
... accounts of 40 shipwrecks and salvage efforts, photos of treasure
such as coins, jewelry, and porcelain, and illustrations of diving equipment
through the ages. Booklist
Hardcover - 200 pages
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Bermuda Shipwrecks : A Vacationing Diver's Guide to Bermuda's Shipwrecks
Daniel Berg
Listed under Bermuda
The
Buried Treasures of Maine
by C. J. Stevens
Paperback from John Wade Publishing
Buried
Treasures of the Rocky Mountain West: Legends of Lost Mines, Train Robbery
Gold, Caves of Forgotten Riches, and Indians' Buried Silver
by W. C. Jameson
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback: 191 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.53 x
8.46 x 5.55
Publisher: August House Pub; ; (October 1993)
ISBN: 0874832721
Cobs Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins: The Early Spanish American
Mints and Their Coinages, 1536-1773
by Sewall Menzel
Listed under Numismatism
Coronado's
Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
by James Frank Dobie
Paperback: 329 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.92 x
8.94 x 5.90
Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr; ; (July 1985)
ISBN: 0292710526
Encyclopedia
of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology
by James P. Delgado (Editor)
Hardcover - 500 pages (March )
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300074271
Expedition
Whydah : The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure
Ship and the Man Who Found Her
by Barry Clifford, Paul Perry (Contributor)
Hardcover - 311 pages (April )
Cliff Street Books; ISBN: 0060192321
Goldfinder:
The True Story of $100 Million In Lost Russian Gold -- and One Man's Lifelong
Quest to Recover It
by Keith Jessop, Neil Hanson
As a young boy, Keith Jessop dreamed of leaving the Yorkshire, England,
mill town of Keighley behind to sail the seas in search of treasure. Four
decades later, he found his chest of gold: 431 gold bars, to be exact,
from the HMS Edinburgh, 800 feet down in the Arctic Sea. Jessop tells his
rags-to-riches story in Goldfinder.
From his first snorkel dives as a Royal Marine commando and his first
scuba dive--when he could very easily have died--Jessop was hooked. He
began collecting equipment and spending every nonworking moment either
in the water or heading to and from it. He quit his job--much to the consternation
of his long-suffering wife, Mildred--and began working as a salvage diver
going after nonferrous metal fittings from shipwrecks. Working his first
wreck, the SS. Pollux II, "brought back memories of my childhood fantasies
to me, but this was the real thing, almost as good as diving on a galleon
full of pieces of eight." Later, he and his partners recovered over 200
tons of copper from the Johanna Thorden, earning themselves the nickname
"The Copper Kings" in the process. Between wrecks Jessop turned to saturation
diving (where divers stay in a pressurized environment for days on end)
on offshore oil platforms.
Time not spent in the water was spent doing research, using both alcohol
("the research often involved nothing more than buying the local lobstermen
a pint. They'd point out sites where they'd lost lobster pots, a good indicator
of something unusual on the sea-bed") and archives. His research revealed
plenty of surprises--such as the day he was left alone in a room with what
turned out to be the cargo manifest of the Lusitania. Despite the claims
of the British government, the document indicated that the Lusitania was
indeed carrying a large cargo of armaments. "I was unsure if I was being
leaked a story the official wished to see published or being tested on
my ability to keep a secret.... I've kept my silence until now."
Having gained decades of experience, Jessop assembled the team to go
after the Edinburgh, which was sunk in 1942 while carrying 10 tons of Soviet
gold. Miles of red tape later, on September 16, 1981, his dreams came true.
"I cradled the bar in my hands, holding it as tenderly as a baby--a very
heavy one." Recovering the gold was just the beginning, however, and Jessop
recounts his later troubles in (sometimes tedious) detail. Co-written by
Neil Hanson (whose book The Custom of the Sea was a 2000 Amazon.com Editor's
Choice), Goldfinder makes great reading for divers and dreamers alike.
--Sunny Delaney - Amazon.com
Hardcover - 456 pages 1 edition (February 16, )
John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 047140733X
Graveyard of the Atlantic : Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast
by David Stick
Listed under Shipwrecks
In
the Wake of Galleons
by Robert Marx
Book Description: The general public has an insatiable interest in
sunken ships, lost treasures, and the swashbuckling adventurers who go
after them. The readers of In the Wake of Galleons will experience an actual
treasure hunt, and share in the frustrations, dangers and disappointments
that are a part of any expedition. They will also feel the adrenaline rush
that comes when the hunter finds treasure. Contents include:
Columbus' Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks of the 1715 Spanish Fleet,
The Sunken Continent of Atlantis, Montezuma's Treasure, Panama's Treasure,
and much much more!
Hardcover from Best Publishing Company
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Treasure
Hunting for Fun and Profit
by Charles Garrett
Paperback from Ram Pub Co
Oak
Island Gold
by William S. Crooker
Paperback (October 1993)
Nimbus Publishing, Ltd.; ISBN: 155109049X
Oak Island Secrets
by Mark Finnan
Paperback Revised edition
Formac Pub Co Ltd; ISBN: 0887804144
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The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar : Solving the Oak Island
Mystery
by Steven Sora
Listed under Knights Templar
Galleon
Hunt
Robert Weller
The life story of Art McKee, the first salvage diver of the Florida
Keys. He successfully worked the Capitana of the Spanish 1733 treasure
fleet, built a museum that thousands have visited in the Florida keys,
then began his search for the Spanish treasure galleon "Genovesa" that
sank on the Pedro banks in 1730. After many years of searching the wrong
reefs, he finally located the galleon and recovered silver coins and bars.
He died 8 months later, never to return to the "Genovesa".
Library Binding / Published 1992
The
Oak Island Mystery : The Secret of the World's Greatest Treasure Hunt
Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe
Paperback / Published 1995
Lost
Treasure Ships of the Twentieth Century
by Nigel Pickford
Hardcover - 192 pages (August 24, )
Natl Geographic Society; ISBN: 0792274725
The Lost Museum : The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest
Works of Art
by Hector Feliciano
Listed under Art in the
Third Reich
Return
to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd
by Barry Clifford, Paul Perry
Book Description: When history's most famous pirate, Captain Kidd,
was hanged in 1701, he left behind a trail of treasure and treachery that
stretched halfway around the world. For undersea explorer Barry Clifford,
the biggest prize of all would be to find the Adventure Galley, Kidd's
legendary pirate ship. In the world of pirate archaeology, it was the Holy
Grail.
With the help of the Discovery Channel, Clifford fields an expedition
that includes some of America's top experts in shipwreck recovery. Their
goal is to find, identify, and possibly excavate the remains of history's
most famous pirate ship. The search takes them to the exotic nation of
Madagascar and a tiny island off its rocky coast known to historians as
the model for Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. There, amid pirate
graveyards, broken porcelain intended for a European royal family, and
native rituals that include blood sacrifice, Clifford and his crew find
far more than they bargained for. The island's murky harbor is filled with
sunken pirate ships, making it difficult to single out the Adventure Galley,
and the shores are teeming with people who want the expedition stopped.
The team races to find the ship before dark forces expel it from the island
-- forces motivated by the same resentment and greed that caused Kidd's
downfall.
Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd weaves together
two exciting stories: the saga of Captain William Kidd, one of history's
most baffling and mysterious figures, and Barry Clifford's obsessive quest
to find perhaps the most notorious pirate ship of all time. The result
is a tale of treasure and adventure that ends in death -- both Kidd's and,
three hundred years later, that of a rival archaeologist who attempts to
stop Clifford's expedition.
Hardcover from William Morrow
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The
Spanish Treasure Fleets
by Timothy R. Walton
Hardcover - 256 pages
Pineapple Pr; ISBN: 1561640492
Three
Miles Down : A Hunt for Sunken Treasure
James Hamilton-Paterson
Deep-sea submarines have been released from military and scientific
tasks to look for lucre, found either by filming rock-star wrecks like
the Titanic or by salvaging gold. Hamilton-Paterson was the shipboard scribe
for the money-hunting chronicled here: an expedition to haul up bullion
that combat sent to the bottom in World War II.
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Florida Shipwrecks : The Divers Guide to Shipwrecks Around the State
of Florida and the Florida Keys
Daniel Berg
Listed under Florida Keys
Shipwrecks in the Americas
by Robert F. Marx
Listed under Shipwrecks
Stalin's
Silver : The Sinking of the USS John Barry
by John Beasant
Hardcover - 224 pages Reprint edition
St Martins Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0312205902
Underwater Archaeology : Exploring the World Beneath the Sea
by Jean-Yves Blot
Listed under Diving Books
Treasure Hunt : A New York Times Reporter Tracks the Quedlinburg
Hoard
William H. Honan
In the last days of World War II, a thousand year-old trove of artworks
and manuscripts, worth $200 million, disappeared from a mineshaft in Germany.
Among the missing items were the world-famous Samuhel Gospels, a spectacular
gold, silver and jewel encrusted ninth-century manuscript given to the
Quedlinburg cloister by Germany's first King and hidden away by Heinrich
Himmler in the last days of the Reich.
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Lost Ships : The Discovery and Exploration of the Ocean's Sunken
Treasures
by Mensun Bound
Hardcover - 192 pages (November )
Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0684852519
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