Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Arch... by Pope, Frank Paperback / softback

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Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
ISBN
0156033291
EAN
9780156033299
Date of Publication
2007-12-03
Publication Name
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Type
Paperback / softback
Release Title
Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Archeology, and Greed Off...
Artist
Pope, Frank
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Book Title
Dragon Sea : a True Tale of Treasure, Archeology, and Greed Off the Coast of Vietnam
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Item Length
8 in
Publication Year
2007
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Frank Pope
Genre
Travel, Art, Transportation, Social Science, History
Topic
Archaeology, Special Interest / Adventure, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Ceramics, Expeditions & Discoveries
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Width
5.3 in
Number of Pages
368 Pages
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0156033291
ISBN-13
9780156033299
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59113537

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Book Title
Dragon Sea : a True Tale of Treasure, Archeology, and Greed Off the Coast of Vietnam
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Archaeology, Special Interest / Adventure, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Ceramics, Expeditions & Discoveries
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Art, Transportation, Social Science, History
Author
Frank Pope
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

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Trade
Reviews
... an engaging account that delves into the ethical conundrums of marine salvage, the deadly physics of the deep ocean and the roiling waters of professional subterfuge ... Pope''s impassioned, detailed reporting draws us into the story of ceramics and Vietnam ..., ... an engaging account that delves into the ethical conundrums of marine salvage, the deadly physics of the deep ocean and the roiling waters of professional subterfuge ... Pope's impassioned, detailed reporting draws us into the story of ceramics and Vietnam ..., PRAISE FORDRAGON SEA   "Treasure and typhoons, conflict and greed, plus a cast of intriguing characters and a weighty issue at its heart--Frank Pope's tale has all the ingredients of a classic thriller. But it's all true. A stunning debut."--Nicholas Evans, author ofThe Horse Whisperer "It takes a writer of extraordinary talent to tell a story like the one we find in Dragon Sea, but Frank Pope is one. This masterful recreation of the salvaging of the Hoi An hoard is as exciting as it is suspenseful--a thoughtful and gripping true thriller."--Clive Cussler, PRAISE FOR DRAGON SEA "Treasure and typhoons, conflict and greed, plus a cast of intriguing characters and a weighty issue at its heart--Frank Pope's tale has all the ingredients of a classic thriller. But it's all true. A stunning debut."--Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer "It takes a writer of extraordinary talent to tell a story like the one we find in Dragon Sea, but Frank Pope is one. This masterful recreation of the salvaging of the Hoi An hoard is as exciting as it is suspenseful--a thoughtful and gripping true thriller."--Clive Cussler, This intense look at the fierce competition in what first-time author Pope slyly calls "the extraordinary underworld of shipwrecks" focuses on the effort in the late 1990s to recover a hoard of precious 15th-century porcelain from the sunken Hoi An ship in the Dragon Sea, a stretch of "typhoon-torn" water off the coast of Vietnam. Pope is equally adept at illuminating "the peculiarly powerful allure of shipwrecks" that drives the Hoi An team as he is in explaining the larger and more difficult context of modern excavation efforts, where "maritime archeologists who were regularly leading excavations around the world could be counted on the fingers of one hand, but the number of looters, souvenir-seekers, and well-equipped treasure-hunters was in the high hundreds." But Pope's strength in detailing the Hoi An story comes from his fascinating in-depth portraits of the main players in what became an unprecedented and expensive recovery effort: Ong Soo Hin, a Malaysian businessman who helped launch the project; Mensun Bound, the director of Oxford's Maritime Archaeological unit; and Dilip Tan, the operations manager under "nightmarish pressure" to finish the project. Pope expertly shows how the same ocean that can terrify and enrich can also "lay bare the very nature of man.", PRAISE FOR DRAGON SEA   "Treasure and typhoons, conflict and greed, plus a cast of intriguing characters and a weighty issue at its heart--Frank Pope's tale has all the ingredients of a classic thriller. But it's all true. A stunning debut."--Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer "It takes a writer of extraordinary talent to tell a story like the one we find in  Dragon Sea,  but Frank Pope is one. This masterful recreation of the salvaging of the Hoi An hoard is as exciting as it is suspenseful--a thoughtful and gripping true thriller."--Clive Cussler, "Treasure and typhoons, conflict and greed, plus a cast of intriguing characters and a weighty issue at its heart -- Frank Pope's tale has all the ingredients of a classic thriller.  But it's all true.  A stunning debut."--Nicholas Evans, author of THE HORSE WHISPERER, "Treasure and typhoons, conflict and greed, plus a cast of intriguing characters and a weighty issue at its heart - Frank Pope's tale has all the ingredients of a classic thriller.  But it's all true.  A stunning debut."--Nicholas Evans, author of THE HORSE WHISPERER, "Treasure and typhoons, conflict and greed, plus a cast of intriguing characters and a weighty issue at its heart - Frank Popee(tm)s tale has all the ingredients of a classic thriller. But ite(tm)s all true. A stunning debut."--Nicholas Evans, author of THE HORSE WHISPERER
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
910.9164/72
Table Of Content
Foreword  Prologue: South China Sea, Mid-fifteenth Century  Introduction: Grandchildren of the Dragon  Part One  1 The Archeologist  2. The Businessman   3. The Catch   4 A Trial Run   5. The Grinning Mandarin   6. Mensun's Dilemma  Part Two  7. Dockyard Drama   8. Lost and Found   9. The Dragon Stirs  10. A Second Chance  11. Blowdown  12. The First Haul  13. Indulging Mensun  14. The Dragon Strikes  15. Hope and Pray  16. Fresh Blood  17. Ong's Confidence  18. Dividing Loyalties  19. Breaking Point  20. An Ominous Wind  21. Taking Stock  Part Three 22. The Task Ahead  23. The Mandarin's Revenge  24  Academic Attack  25. Final Reckoning  Epilogue: The Gibbon & the Sun  Acknowledgments  A Note on Sources  Index 
Synopsis
In THE DRAGON SEA, Frank Pope recounts the story of a highly successful yet also ill-fated underwater archeological expedition off the coast of Vietnam. For years, fisherman in one particular stretch of water that not just been pulling fish up in their nets but 15th-century Chinese porcelain. Unable to fund an expedition itself, the Vietnamese government authorized Mensun Bound, an Oxford University archaeologist, to excavate the site. Bound teamed up with a Malasian businessman named Ong Soo Hin, who offered to pay for the excavation in exchange for the right to auction off some of the precious cargo recovered. Things went well until typhoon season arrived. The expedition was in mortal danger and the relationship between Bound and Hin disintegrated. Frank Pope was there through it all, and tells the full story of this expedition and the stakes involved, and shows how the unholy alliance of archeologists and profit can lead to disastrous consequences., Frank Pope pulls back the curtain on the intensely competitive underworld of shipwrecks in this thrilling story of treasure hunting gone wrong. When Oxford archeologist Mensun Bound--dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the Deep" by the Discovery Channel--teamed up with a financier to salvage a sunken trove of fifteenth-century porcelain, it seemed a dream enterprise. The stakes were high: The Hoi An wreck lay hundreds of feet down in a typhoon-prone stretch of water off the coast of Vietnam known as the Dragon Sea. Raising its contents required saturation diving, a crew of 160, and a fleet of boats. But the potential rewards were equally high: Bound would revolutionize thinking about Vietnamese ceramics, and his partner would make a fortune auctioning off the pieces. Or so they thought. In Dragon Sea, Pope delivers an engrossing tale of danger, adventure, and ambition--a fascinating lesson in what happens when scholarship and money join forces to recover lost treasure.

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