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Dead men's silver

Edwards, Hugh more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Non Fiction
BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Publication Date: 1/12/2011
Place of Publication: Australia

RRP: $35.00
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This is a romantic story of shipwreck hunting, with pieces-of-eight, Dutch ducatons, German talers, Burgundian crowns, and Spanish silver dollars lost and recovered from the sea floor. Edwards has been recognised as the ‘primary finder’ of the wreck of the Batavia. Along with a close look at the Batavia and other Dutch East India Company wrecks found off the WA coast, the chapters of this memoir include shipwreck adventures in the Mediterranean, Cambodia (where he was ambushed by Pol Pot) and expeditions to the Falklands and Ascension Islands in the Atlantic, where Edwards recovered the ship’s bell from William Dampier’s 1701 Roebuck. Edwards says: ‘A man may be considered lucky to be associated with one treasure in a lifetime. I have been fortunate enough to have been involved with four treasure ships with perhaps another one to go. Somewhere behind an Abrolhos reef off the WA coast are three tons of silver coin in iron-bound chests. Fingers crossed there!’