Dragon Sea A True Tale of Treasure, Archeology, and Greed off the Coast of Vietnam

Name: Dragon Sea A True Tale of Treasure, Archeology, and Greed off the Coast of Vietnam
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ISBN: 9780156033299

ISBN-10: 0156033291

ISBN-13: 9780156033299

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Authors: Frank Pope

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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…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 12/3/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Frank Pope graduated with Honors in Zoology. He then joined Oxford University MARE, assisting on the archaeological excavations of HMS Agamemnon, Nelson's favourite flagship that sank in 1809, and the San Salvador, a Spanish troopship wrecked in 1812, before finding himself at the centre of the Hoi An Wreck drama. He has published numerous specialist articles in the press and currently lives back in Cornwall, England.



Foreword


Prologue: South China Sea, Mid-fifteenth Century


Introduction: Grandchildren of the Dragon






The Archeologist



The Businessman



The Catch



A Trial Run



The Grinning Mandarin



Mensun's Dilemma






Dockyard Drama



Lost and Found



The Dragon Stirs



A Second Chance



Blowdown



The First Haul



Indulging Mensun



The Dragon Strikes



Hope and Pray



Fresh Blood



Ong's Confidence



Dividing Loyalties



Breaking Point



An Ominous Wind



Taking Stock






The Task Ahead



The Mandarin's Revenge



Academic Attack



Final Reckoning


Epilogue: The Gibbon & the Sun


Acknowledgments


A Note on Sources


Index