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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.
About the author
Frank Pope, geb. 1973 in Oxford, ist Meeresarchäologe. Unter der Federführung der Abteilung Maritime Archäologische Forschung und Ausgrabung der Oxford University (MARE) nahm er bereits an einigen Unterwasserexpeditionen in aller Welt teil, unter anderem der Bergung von Lord Nelsons Flagschiff HMS Agamemnon. Die Bergung des Wracks von Hoi An begleitete er als Einsatzleiter. Er lebt in London und Nairobi.
