TITLE:
Dragon Sea : a true tale of treasure, archeology, and greed off the coast of Vietnam / Frank Pope.
By:
Publication Date:
2007
Publication Information:
Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, Inc.,
Edition:
1st Harvest ed.
Physical Description:
341 p. : ill., maps.
Geographic Term:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
Frank Pope pulls back the curtain on the intensely competitive underworld of shipwrecks in this thrilling story of treasure hunting gone wrong. When Oxford archeologist Mensun Bound--dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the Deep" by the Discovery Channel--teamed up with a financier to salvage a sunken trove of fifteenth-century porcelain, it seemed a dream enterprise. The stakes were high: The Hoi An wreck lay hundreds of feet down in a typhoon-prone stretch of water off the coast of Vietnam known as the Dragon Sea. Raising its contents required saturation diving, a crew of 160, and a fleet of boats. But the potential rewards were equally high: Bound would revolutionize thinking about Vietnamese ceramics, and his partner would make a fortune auctioning off the pieces. Or so they thought.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780156033299
General Note:
"A Harvest Book."
