Overview
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. The costs were unprecedented. 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. Hired as the project's manager, Frank Pope watched the tumultuous drama of the Hoi An unfold. In Dragon Sea he delivers an engrossing tale of danger, adventure, and ambition-a fascinating object lesson in what happens when scholarship and money join forces to recover lost treasure.
Full Product Details
Author: Frank Pope ,
Johnny Heller
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798200144921
Publication Date: 01 January 2007
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"Johnny Heller's narration of this true tale of sunken treasure is a fine fit for Frank Pope's story.... Heller makes nonfiction as thrilling as any action-adventure.-- ""AudioFile"" ""Heller's voice reflects the excitement, energy, and irresistible allure to understand the past that draw the 'Indiana Jones of the Deep' into the field of underwater archaeology. Pope's story presents the historical background of the rivalry between China and Vietnam, piracy on the South China Seas, and the project to salvage the Hoi An, a fifteenth-century wreck loaded to the gunwales with priceless blue-and-white porcelain. Heller makes nonfiction as thrilling as any action-adventure, presenting Pope and Bound as men with scruples, sincerely concerned about greedy treasure- seekers who destroy 'the time capsules' so valuable to archaeologists and historians."" -- ""AudioFile"""
Author Information
"Frank Pope graduated with honors in zoology. He then joined Oxford University MARE, assisting on the archaeological excavations of HMS Agamemnon, Nelson's favorite flagship, which sank in 1809, and the San Salvador, a Spanish troopship wrecked in 1812, before finding himself at the center of the Hoi An wreck drama. He has published numerous specialist articles in the press and currently lives in Cornwall, England. Johnny Heller, winner of numerous Earphones and Audie Awards, was named a ""Golden Voice"" by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has been a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award winner from 2008 through 2013 and he has been named a top voice of 2008 and 2009 and selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine."
