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Three hundred years ago, eleven ships went to the bottom of the Florida coast -- and the treasure is still washing ashore today.
Not a Dream, This Treasure Coast is a rollicking, richly detailed narra...
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Three hundred years ago, eleven ships went to the bottom of the Florida coast -- and the treasure is still washing ashore today.
Not a Dream, This Treasure Coast is a rollicking, richly detailed narrative poem that brings the legendary 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet disaster to vivid life. From the gold-laden galleons of Havana to the fury of a late-July hurricane, from desperate survivors huddled on a Florida beach to the legendary treasure hunters who followed centuries later, this book tells one of history's greatest lost-treasure stories in a way that's impossible to forget.
Written in playful, memorable rhyme by a retired social studies teacher -- and illustrated throughout -- the poem weaves together the full epic: the Spanish empire at its peak, the doomed voyage of eleven ships, the catastrophic storm of July 31, 1715, the harrowing survival of 1,500 castaways among the Ais people of Central Florida, the pirate raids of Henry Jennings, and the twentieth-century treasure hunters Kip Wagner and Mel Fisher who brought the story roaring back to life.
Packed with historical footnotes and sidebars that enrich every stanza, this is a book that works beautifully as a picture book read-aloud, a classroom resource, a gift for Florida history lovers, and a companion for anyone who has ever walked a Treasure Coast beach with a metal detector and wondered what if.
A portion of proceeds benefits the Environmental Learning Center in Vero Beach, Florida, and the Amigos de Potosi Foundation in Bolivia.
The treasure is still out there. The story is right here.
