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"item_title" : "The Emperor's Chart",
"item_author" : [" S. B. Hawke "],
"item_description" : "In 1595 a Spanish galleon went down in the bay where Drake had landed. One sailor buried what he had been told to hide, and told the truth about it only once. The San Agustín was the first recorded shipwreck on the California coast. Her captain got most of his men to Mexico in an open boat. Her cargo was lost, her wreck has never been found, and the bay she sank in is the same one where, sixteen years earlier, Francis Drake claimed the country for Elizabeth and left a brass plate nobody has ever seen. Cole Tasman, the New Zealand skipper who read the Marias River when the historians couldn't, has come to Point Reyes at the invitation of a retired historian who has spent thirty years on that wreck. A pilot's sailing directions say a sealed box was put ashore above the reach of the sea. Four hundred years of sand say otherwise. And a quiet club of very rich collectors, the Table, has been holding pieces of this story since 1858 and has no intention of letting a Kiwi boat skipper have the rest. Now Cole is racing a salvage skipper with a dredge and no scruples, a National Park that wants him off its beach, and the biggest king tides of the winter, with a historian he can't stop thinking about and a kid who can read a compass better than he can. From the white cliffs of Drakes Bay to the Burlington Arcade, from a gold-rush tent in Otago to the Tower of London, The Emperor's Chart is a treasure hunt with real history at its heart, a slow-burn romance, and a sea that keeps its own counsel. For readers of Clive Cussler, Steve Berry and National Treasure.",
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Overview
In 1595 a Spanish galleon went down in the bay where Drake had landed. One sailor buried what he had been told to hide, and told the truth about it only once.
The San Agustín was the first recorded shipwreck on the California coast. Her captain got most of his men to Mexico in an open boat. Her cargo was lost, her wreck has never been found, and the bay she sank in is the same one where, sixteen years earlier, Francis Drake claimed the country for Elizabeth and left a brass plate nobody has ever seen. Cole Tasman, the New Zealand skipper who read the Marias River when the historians couldn't, has come to Point Reyes at the invitation of a retired historian who has spent thirty years on that wreck. A pilot's sailing directions say a sealed box was put ashore "above the reach of the sea". Four hundred years of sand say otherwise. And a quiet club of very rich collectors, the Table, has been holding pieces of this story since 1858 and has no intention of letting a Kiwi boat skipper have the rest. Now Cole is racing a salvage skipper with a dredge and no scruples, a National Park that wants him off its beach, and the biggest king tides of the winter, with a historian he can't stop thinking about and a kid who can read a compass better than he can. From the white cliffs of Drakes Bay to the Burlington Arcade, from a gold-rush tent in Otago to the Tower of London, The Emperor's Chart is a treasure hunt with real history at its heart, a slow-burn romance, and a sea that keeps its own counsel. For readers of Clive Cussler, Steve Berry and National Treasure.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9798164787608
- ISBN-10: 9798164787608
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.59 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.78 pounds
- Page Count: 262
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