Product Description

The vast hidden world of sunken treasure.

With less than 2% of the world's ocean depths explored to date, a myriad of unimagined mysteries and treasures await discovery. Treasure Lost at Sea chronicles the excitement of underwater archaeology and search for treasure. The book recounts the major periods and geographic locations of shipwrecks.

Chapters include:

• The classical world
• Scandinavian shipwrecks
• The age of discovery
• The Spanish galleons
• Bermuda, graveyard of ships
• Privateers, pirates and mutineers
• Deep-water shipwrecks (Bismarck, Titanic, and others)
• Port Royal: The sunken city

The lively text details the potential treasure as well as the political turf wars, technological limitations, and forces of nature that threaten any mission's success.

Humanity's long history of exploration, civilization, trade and war is littered with sunken vessels. Colorful and richly illustrated, Treasure Lost at Sea will inspire a new generation of underwater archaeologists.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #328289 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
A beautiful soft cover text full of stunning photographs... something for everyone. -- Kay Plesca, E-Streams 08/2004

Review
A treasure trove for history buffs. (Sharon Wootton Olympia Olympian 20041128)

A beautiful soft cover text full of stunning photographs... something for everyone. (Kay Plesca E-Streams 200408)

About the Author

Robert F. Marx began his underwater archaeological career as a U.S. Marine diver. He has participated in hundreds of search and salvage operations around the world and is the author of seven books including Sunken Treasure: How to Find It, Treasure Fleets of the Spanish Main and The Battle of the Spanish Armada.

Jenifer Marx is the author of Pirates and Privateers of the Caribbean and The Magic of Gold. She co-authored three books with Robert Marx: In the Wake of Galleons, The Underwater Dig and Deep, Deeper, Deepest.

Customer Reviews

A well-written, wide-ranging book
This is a well-written book which ranges in presentation of shipwrecks and their treasures from ancient wrecks to a few 20th century ships (Titanic, Bismark). Lots of adventure and tales of the search for treasure ships without getting bogged down in minutae. The ships range through time since man began plying the seas and across the world. I really enjoyed reading this book and highly recommend it to you. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because I would have liked MORE pictures. It is loaded with pictures, but there was plenty of space to include more!

Nice pictures
Coffee-table book of shipwrecks makes no attempt to be systematic, but is well-enough done, with some nice pictures. Ultimately just an OK throwaway.