Download or read book Atocha Treasure Adventures written by Syd Jones and published by . This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atocha Treasure Adventures Sweat of the Sun Tears of the Moon written by Syd Jones and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atocha Treasure Adventures: Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon is written by one of the very few people who worked for the Treasure Salvors organization, in the 'trenches', day after day for almost two decades. Syd Jones started out as a diver, worked his way up to captain of several Fisher salvage vessels, and ultimately took over as the operations manager of the company in later years. He and his wife, KT, were both essential to the daily workings of Mel Fisher's famous salvage company, headquartered in Key West, Florida. This book is a testament for all of us who labor at sea, be it in body or in mind, pursuing lost wealth. Readers will absorb themselves into the complex themes endemic to the relentless race for the 'mother lode' of the Atocha, the richest treasure wreck in the western hemisphere to date. This is a page-turner you won't be able to put down! Contains dozens of previously unpublished photos and eight maps. Fully indexed. Grayscale.
Download or read book Sweat of the Sun Tears of the Moon written by Peter Lourie and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight billion dollars? worth of Inca gold and silver are rumored to be hidden in an unmapped region of the Andes. This is the captivating story of that fabled treasure and the centuries-old spell it has cast on many, including a young American student, Peter Lourie. While completing anthropological fieldwork in Ecuador, Lourie heard the legend of Atahualpa?s ransom. The Incas gathered seven-hundred tons of gold (Sweat of the Sun) and silver (Tears of the Moon) to purchase the freedom of their king, Atahualpa, from Pizarro and his conquistadors. After the Inca ruler?s murder, the treasure vanished into the forsaken Llanganati range of the Andes. Lourie abandoned his graduate school ambitions to search for Atahualpa?s ransom. His quest for clues and his journey into the heart of the Andes is an absorbing and exciting detective story. Lourie?s account is also unforgettable for its revelations about the lives and characters of seasoned treasure hunters, the obsessed few lured by the siren song of legendary gold.
Download or read book Atocha Treasure Adventures written by Syd Jones and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Atocha Treasure Adventures: Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon" is written by one of the very few people who worked for the Treasure Salvors organization, in the 'trenches', day after day for almost two decades. Syd Jones started out as a diver, worked his way up to captain of several Fisher salvage vessels, and ultimately took over as the operations manager of the company in later years. He and his wife, KT, were both essential to the daily workings of Mel Fisher's famous salvage company, headquartered in Key West, Florida. This book is a testament for all of us who labor at sea, be it in body or in mind, pursuing lost wealth. Readers will absorb themselves into the complex themes endemic to the relentless race for the 'mother lode' of the Atocha, the richest treasure wreck in the western hemisphere to date. This is a page-turner you won't be able to put down! This latest edition contains new information and photographs from Havana, Cuba, regarding the Atocha and Margarita, personally collected by the author in 2015, 25 years after the discovery of the Atocha's 'mother lode' by the Treasure Salvors crew. Contains dozens of previously unpublished photos and eight maps. Fully indexed. Grayscale. Rave Reviews !!! By Robert F. Burgess on July 15, 2014 Syd, you did a magnificent job of describing the actual events that took place from the view of one who started at the bottom and moved up to the top working as one of Mel Fisher's on-the-site divers. Great perspective that I found especially interesting because I covered the same material before the find with the historical events, then interviews with Mel, Kincaid and other old-timers from Treasure Salvors. I avoided being there during the final hoop-la but wrote about it in my books.Even ended up adventure diving years later on a chartered cat out of Belize City that turned out to have belonged to Kincaid purchased from his share of the treasure. Great memories. Your book took me right back to those days; the kind we will never see again. I miss all of those characters, Mel and Deo who have gone on to their other rewards. Thanks for this detailed journal of those remarkable events. Hope you always find whatever you search for in Life. You only go around once and you certainly are making the most of it. Best regards, Robert F. Burgess By James Bugbee (Honolulu, HI) on June 27, 2011 A true 5 STAR read! Outstanding book, so well written that you feel you are there - along on the searches for treasure and other adventures. A great cast of characters, who also happen to be real people that you begin to feel you know personally and care about. Whether diving under the Galleon to make repairs or diving off the Swordfish and probing under the sand for treasure, all the descriptions are so realistic that you can visualize the boats, people, sunsets, everything, so clearly. The photos add spice to the text and further draw you in as a participant in all that is happening. Even for someone who knows nothing about shipwreck salvage and diving for treasure, the book holds your interest and once you start, you don't want to put it down. No matter where your interests are: at sea, in the sky, or on shore, you'll thoroughly enjoy being along for the Atocha Treasure Adventure. Now, Capt. Syd and Capt. KT, what about a follow-on book about your adventures since these?
Download or read book Treasure of the Atocha written by R. Duncan Mathewson and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the search and discovery of the treasure wreck--Nuestra Senora de Atocha.
Download or read book Atocha Treasure Adventures written by Syd Jones and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atocha Treasure Adventures: Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon is written by one of the very few people who worked for the Treasure Salvors organization, in the 'trenches', day after day for almost two decades. Syd Jones started out as a diver, worked his way up to captain of several Fisher salvage vessels, and ultimately took over as the operations manager of the company in later years. He and his wife, KT, were both essential to the daily workings of Mel Fisher's famous salvage company, headquartered in Key West, Florida. This book is a testament for all of us who labor at sea, be it in body or in mind, pursuing lost wealth. Readers will absorb themselves into the complex themes endemic to the relentless race for the 'mother lode' of the Atocha, the richest treasure wreck in the western hemisphere to date. This is a page-turner you won't be able to put down! Contains dozens of previously unpublished photos and eight maps. Fully indexed. Color
Download or read book Fatal Treasure written by Jedwin Smith and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In real life-especially off the Florida coast-things can have fatal consequences. Fatal Treasure is a truly compelling read." -Aphrodite Jones, New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Sacrifice and All She Wanted In 1622, hundreds of people lost their lives to the curse of the Spanish galleon Atocha-and they would not be the last. Fatal Treasure combines the rousing adventure of Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea with the compelling characters and local color of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It tells the powerful true story of the relentless quest to find the Atocha and reclaim her priceless treasures from the sea. You'll follow Mel Fisher, his family, and their intrepid team of treasure hunters as they dive beneath the treacherous waters of the Florida Straits and scour the ocean floor in search of gold, silver, and emeralds. And you'll discover that nearly four centuries after the shipwreck, the curse of the Atocha is still a deadly force. "On this day, the sea once again relinquished its hold on the riches and glory of seventeenth-century Spain. And by the grace of God, I would share the moment of glory . . . . I was reaching for my eighth emerald, another big one, when the invisible hands squeezed my trachea. In desperation, I clutched at my throat to pry away the enemy's fingers. But no one had hold of me." -From the Prologue
Download or read book The Atocha Odyssey written by Pat Clyne and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Search for the Motherlode of the Atocha written by Eugene Lyon and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Search for the Atocha written by Eugene Lyon and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iberia written by James A. Michener and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”—The Wall Street Journal Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history. Wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful, this is Spain as experienced by a master writer.
Download or read book Before and Beyond the Niihau Zero written by Syd Jones and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a battle damaged Japanese Zero landed on a remote, privately owned Hawaiian island. The Zero pilot survived for almost a week on what locals call the "Forbidden Island", assisted by a local worker while terrorizing the island's population before being killed by a native Hawaiian. Though the air raid on December 7, 1941 caught many by surprise, the island's owner had actually begun preparations against the attack years earlier, inspired by a remarkably accurate prophecy. The wreckage of the Japanese plane was abandoned on the island, but it's legacy was not forgotten. Sixty five years later the Zero and the story surrounding it became part of a new aviation museum in Hawaii. The Zero display brought to the forefront what happened the day of the attack, the conflict that ensued on the island in the days that followed, while unexpectedly generating a modern controversy in the process. In researching the existence of the "Niihau Zero" the author was allowed unprecedented access to the "Forbidden Island", was able to interview its owners and inhabitants, and arrange for the Zero artifacts to be placed on public display. This book contains original reports as well as documents never before published that give unique perspectives into one of the most curious and thought provoking events of WWII.
Download or read book Toleration and other essays written by Voltaire and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire writes a long essay questioning the Jean Calas case, reflecting on Christianity and remembering the earthquake in Lisbon. Voltaire, novelist, dramatist, poet, and philosopher was one of the most renowned figures of the Age of Enlightenment.
Download or read book Coins and Currency written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of tobacco, and sea salt blocks. As art and technology advanced, monetary systems and currencies altered. Today, coins and currency provide an historical and archeological record of culture, religion, politics, and world leaders. This updated second edition offers numerous entries of historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics, and the arts. It begins with the origin of coins in ancient Sumer, and follows advancements in metallurgy and minting machines to paper, plastic, and electronic moneys designed to ease trade and halt counterfeiting and other forms of theft. A timeline of monetary history is provided along with a glossary and bibliography. Numerous photographs of coins and bills provide an up-close look at beautiful and ingenious artifacts.
Download or read book Santeria written by Luis Manuel Núñez and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of the gods, descriptions of oracles, spells, and ceremonies introduce a religion with many adherents in the Americas.
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