GoKawiilJulian Sancton's 'Neptune's Fortune' chronicles hunt for $1 billion San José shipwreck
Historian Julian Sancton has published 'Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire,' which recounts underwater archaeologist Roger Dooley's search for the Spanish galleon San José, sunk off Colombia in 1708. Dooley located the wreck in 2015 using Spanish archival research, but was excluded from Colombia's official announcement and has since faced numerous lawsuits over salvage rights. The book, a follow-up to Sancton's bestseller 'Madhouse at the End of the Earth,' was named one of Barnes & Noble's Best Books of 2026.