By Cathe Cush. These are the stories of treasures that rival Treasure Island, from the bronze-age wreck at Uluburun that carried a gold scarab bearing the name of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti to the seventeenth-century Spanish ship Atocha, which led its seeks on a treasure hunt for a prize of five hundred silver bars, sixteen emeralds, and chests of silver coins and gold bars, a hoard worth millions, but one which could never replace the loss of the expedition leader's son and daughter in law. Shipwrecks tells the tales of people on the ships and people searching for them, with lots of photos including many underwater photographs. Hard cover, 120 pages.
By Cathe Cush. These are the stories of treasures that rival Treasure Island, from the bronze-age wreck at Uluburun that carried a gold scarab bearing the name of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti to the seventeenth-century Spanish ship Atocha, which led its seeks on a treasure hunt for a prize of five hundred silver bars, sixteen emeralds, and chests of silver coins and gold bars, a hoard worth millions, but one which could never replace the loss of the expedition leader's son and daughter in law. Shipwrecks tells the tales of people on the ships and people searching for them, with lots of photos including many underwater photographs. Hard cover, 120 pages.
Keepers Picks
