Pieces of Eight: Recovering the Riches of a Lost Spanish Treasure Fleet - Couverture souple

Wagner, Kip

9781493736614: Pieces of Eight: Recovering the Riches of a Lost Spanish Treasure Fleet

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ISBN 10 : 1493736612 ISBN 13 : 9781493736614

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

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Twentieth-century sleuthing methods arelinked with the romance and mystery ofthe past in this true story of a treasurehunt that has yielded millions. Over 250years ago a Spanish treasure armada waswrecked on the Florida reefs, and tenrichly laden vessels were sunk. In timethey were forgotten. In the l 940's KipWagner, then a Florida constructionman, picked up the first clues to the locationof the wrecked ships. They werescarce: occasional blackened silver coinsdiscovered here and there along thebeach. But Kip Wagner's imaginationwas fired, and with the help of his friendand physician, Dr. Kelso, he began thelong research and search operations thatare described in this engrossing book. Theywere joined by a small group of other menand formed the Real Eight Corporationappropriatelynamed for the Spanish ochoreales, or piece of eight. Most of the teamhad other jobs, some of them at nearbyCape Kennedy, and could hunt treasureonly in their spare time. But they persisted.The work was arduous, at timesdangerous. There were setbacks, disappointments,grueling underwater ordeals.But in time the rewards were sensational-thousands of silver pieces of eight andgolden doubloons, silver bars and bullion,gold ingots, gold rings and pendants,priceless Chinese porcelain, a gold necklaceappraised by a museum at $50,000,three million dollars in treasure recoveredso far by this band of hard-working, adventurous,persistent men.

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Twentieth-century sleuthing methods are linked with the romance and mystery of the past in this true story of a treasure hunt that has yielded millions. Over 250 years ago a Spanish treasure armada was wrecked on the Florida reefs, and ten richly laden vessels were sunk. In time they were forgotten. In the l 940's Kip Wagner, then a Florida construction man, picked up the first clues to the location of the wrecked ships. They were scarce: occasional blackened silver coins discovered here and there along the beach. But Kip Wagner's imagination was fired, and with the help of his friend and physician, Dr. Kelso, he began the long research and search operations that are described in this engrossing book. They were joined by a small group of other men and formed the Real Eight Corporationappropriately named for the Spanish ocho reales, or piece of eight. Most of the team had other jobs, some of them at nearby Cape Kennedy, and could hunt treasure only in their spare time. But they persisted. The work was arduous, at times dangerous. There were setbacks, disappointments, grueling underwater ordeals. But in time the rewards were sensational -thousands of silver pieces of eight and golden doubloons, silver bars and bullion, gold ingots, gold rings and pendants, priceless Chinese porcelain, a gold necklace appraised by a museum at $50,000, three million dollars in treasure recovered so far by this band of hard-working, adventurous, persistent men.

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