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Documents historical efforts to claim the lost treasures of sunken ships, from Captain William Phips's 1687 discovery of a cache of Spanish galleons to the numerous dangerous quests of fortune hunters who have lost their lives. 15,000 first printing.
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Peter Earle formerly taught at the London School of Economics and is now Emeritus Reader in Economic History at the University of London. He is the author of more than a dozen books on English social and maritime history, including The Sack of Panamá, and The Pirate Wars, among many others. He lives in England.
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